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Birthdays

Peter Blow

1777-08-08 - 1832-06-23

Isaac Davis Clark

1835-08-08 - 1888-03-18

Charles Anderson Dana

1819-08-08 - 1897-10-17

John Wesley Duvall

1836-08-08 - 1900-01-01

Winfield Scott Featherston

1820-08-08 - 1891-05-28

Nelson Appleton Miles

1839-08-08 - 1925-05-15

Lewis Griffith Sparrow

1828-08-08 - 1908-01-01

Walter Chiles Whitaker

1823-08-08 - 1887-07-09

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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	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
Personal	John W. Forney serves as secretary of the United States Senate	07/15/1861 to 06/04/1868

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Documents

Newspaper

The Wade-Davis Manifesto, August 5, 1864

08/08/1864