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November 1 – Zachariah Chandler, U.S. Senator from Michigan from 1857 to 1875 and in 1879 (born 1813) December 31 – George S. Houston, Governor of Alabama from 1874 to 1878 and U.S. Senator from Alabama in 1879 (born 1811)
Category: 1879 in the United States by state or territory. ... 1879 in Pennsylvania (4 C) R. 1879 in Rhode Island (1 C) T. 1879 in Tennessee (1 C) 1879 in Texas (2 C ...
California was admitted as a free state in 1850 without an accompanying slave state, though certain concessions were made to the slave states as part of the Compromise of 1850. Three more free states were admitted in the final years before the Civil War, disrupting the balance that the slave states had tried to maintain.
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1879 in the United States by state or territory (46 C) 1879 disestablishments in the United States (8 C, 1 P) 1879 establishments in the United States (45 C, 16 P)
The 1878–79 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between June 3, 1878, and September 3, 1879. [d] Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before or after the first session of the 46th United States Congress convened on March 18, 1879. Elections were ...
The 1879 State of the Union address was delivered by the 19th president of the United States, Rutherford B. Hayes, to the 46th United States Congress on December 1, 1879, in the House Chamber of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. Speaker of the House, Samuel J. Randall, and Vice President William A. Wheeler presided over the joint session.
The Pittsburgh Keystones win the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League title. Harry Peel, of the Pittsburgh Keystones admits that he was paid $35 a week to play in the Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, becoming one of the first openly professional ice hockey players. Pittsburgh Railways Company and Children's Institute of Pittsburgh established.