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Birthdays

George Armstrong Custer

1839-12-05 - 1876-06-25

Thomas Roderick Dew

1802-12-05 - 1846-08-06

James Guthrie

1792-12-05 - 1869-03-13

John Baldwin Raymond

1844-12-05 - 1886-01-03

Thomas Jefferson Rusk

1803-12-05 - 1857-07-29

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Events

Legal/Political	Stephen A. Douglas serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1847 to 06/03/1861
Legal/Political	Elihu Washburne serves in the United States House of Representatives	03/04/1853 to 03/06/1869
Legal/Political	Lyman Trumbull serves in the United States Senate	03/04/1855 to 03/03/1873
Personal	Moncure Conway serves as minister at Unitarian Church in Cincinnati, Ohio	10/26/1856 to 01/01/1862
Personal	Ozias Mather Hatch serves as Illinois Secretary of State	01/01/1857 to 01/31/1865

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Documents

Letter	Letter from Jane Stuart Woolsey, December 5, 1860	12/05/1860
Newspaper	New York Times, “Mr. Buchanan's Style of Conciliation,” December 5, 1860	12/05/1860
Newspaper	Charleston (SC) Mercury, "The John Brown Pike," December 5, 1860	12/05/1860