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Birthdays

John Buford

1826-03-04 - 1863-12-16

John Randolph Chambliss Sr.

1809-03-04 - 1875-04-03

Elisha Franklin Paxton

1828-03-04 - 1863-05-02

Edwards Pierrepont

1817-03-04 - 1892-03-06

Raymond Montague Stevenson

1840-03-04 - 1895-04-20

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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

Newspaper	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, "4th of March," March 4, 1861	03/04/1861
Newspaper	New York Times, “The Plot Against Mr. Lincoln’s Life,” March 4, 1861	03/04/1861
Speech	Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861, Washington, DC	03/04/1861