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Birthdays

James Hervey Barton

1834-12-29 - 1910-01-29

Richard Ridgely Battee

1822-12-29 - 1894-01-29

Alexander Gwin

1807-12-29 - 1848-03-28

David Benjamin Herman

1844-12-29 - 1876-12-29

John James Ingalls

1833-12-29 - 1900-08-16

Andrew Johnson

1808-12-29 - 1875-07-31

Mark Perrin Lowrey

1828-12-29 - 1887-02-27

Albert Pike

1809-12-29 - 1891-04-02

Eli Saulsbury

1817-12-29 - 1893-03-22

Philip Benner Waddle

1809-12-29 - 1895-10-19

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Events

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
Legal/Political	Andrew Gregg Curtin serves as Governor of Pennslyvania	01/15/1861 to 01/15/1867

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Documents

Letter	C.E. Hill to Editor, December 29, 1861	12/29/1861
Newspaper	New York Herald, "Settlement of the Trent Difficulty," December 29, 1861	12/29/1861