* 1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity.

This defense was first used by U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.

* February 27 – U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles shoots Philip Barton Key for having an affair with his wife.

* November 16 – Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman and Signer of the U. S. Constitution for Maryland ( b. 1723 )

* July 6 – Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, Congressman from Virginia, and general ( d. 1802 )

In 1865, Dahlgren married his second wife, Sarah Madeleine Vinton, daughter of Congressman Samuel Finley Vinton and Romaine Madeleine Bureau, and the widow of Daniel Convers Goddard, first Assistant Secretary of the newly-created U. S. Department of the Interior.

Congressman William D. Kelley spoke for the city and state and Daniel Johnson Morrell introduced a bill to create a United States Centennial Commission.

After a year there, he took a competitive examination for the U. S. Military Academy at West Point held by Congressman Daniel J. Griffin, the chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs, ranking first out of 62 applicants for the appointment.

This defense was first used by U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.

Historian Kenneth Stampp has captured the Copperhead spirit in his depiction of Congressman Daniel W. Voorhees of Indiana:

In 1978-1979, he was retained by the United States House of Representatives as Special Counsel to the House of Representatives Committee on Standards of Official Conduct ( Ethics Committee ) in a sensitive matter involving one of the most senior members of the House of Representatives, Congressman Daniel Flood, regarding allegations of bribery and related offenses.

Transcripts from the Iran-Contra Hearings in 1987 record the following dialogue between Congressman Jack Brooks, Oliver North's attorney Brendan Sullivan and Senator Daniel Inouye, the Democratic Chair of the joint Senate-House Committee:

The Congressman was a lifelong friend of statesman and orator Daniel Webster.

* Daniel B. Brewster, U. S. Senator for Maryland, 1963 – 1969 ; Congressman for Maryland's 2nd District, 1959 – 1963

* Daniel Morgan, military hero and VA Congressman.

At the general election in November 1983, appointed Senator Daniel J. Evans defeated a vigorous challenge by Democratic Congressman Mike Lowry.

However, Edwards upset General William Westmoreland in the Republican primary, and then defeated Democratic Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn in the general election, thus becoming the first Republican governor of the state since Daniel Henry Chamberlain in 1876.

Ninian Edwards ' daughter, Julia Edwards Cook, married Congressman Daniel Pope Cook.

Texas Regulars supporters included Congressman Martin Dies Jr., former Texas governor Dan Moody, and Senator W. Lee O ' Daniel.

This proposal was fiercely criticized on the House floor by antiwar Congressman Daniel Webster of Massachusetts.

* Daniel Laurens Barringer ( 1788 – 1832 ), U. S. Congressman from North Carolina, 1825-1834.

* Daniel Moreau Barringer ( 1806 – 1873 ), U. S. Congressman from North Carolina, 1843-1848.

* Daniel Hiester ( 1747 – 1804 ) US Congressman

* Daniel Hiester the younger ( 1774 – 1834 ) US Congressman

They dug up a speech he had made two years earlier as a Congressman, decrying the more than two hundred statues, monuments, and memorials which `` dot the Washington landscape as patriotic societies and zealous friends are constantly hatching new plans ''.

* 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas ").

Late in 2005, Army Lt. Col. Kevin Shaffer and Congressman Curt Weldon alleged that the Defense Department data mining project Able Danger had kept Nawaf, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi all under surveillance as Al-Qaeda agents.

Twenty years ago Michael Rogers would have had to persuade a newspaper or other media outlet to risk legal action by reporting his allegations about Congressman Ed Schrock.

Congressman Bill Shuster introduced a bill to this effect in 2006, but as of 2008, these awards had not been granted.

* May 22 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate, for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (" Bleeding Kansas ").

Going into the convention, the two leading candidates for the nomination were former Congressman Bland, who had originated the Bland-Allison Act, and former Iowa Governor Horace Boies, with Bland considered the frontrunner.

Others, including Congressman Henry Hyde, had submitted amendments designed to seriously weaken the power of the Voting Rights Act.

Congressman Oakes Ames testified Garfield had purchased 10 shares of Crédit Mobiler stock for $ 1000, received accrued stock interest and $ 329 ( 33 per cent ) in dividends sometime between December 1867 and June 1868.

A printing press was established at New Echota by the Vermont missionary Samuel Worcester and Major Ridge's nephew Elias Boudinot, who had taken the name of his white benefactor, a leader of the Continental Congress and New Jersey Congressman.

Johnson's father had served six terms in the Texas legislature and was a close friend of one of Texas's rising political figures, Congressman Sam Rayburn.

Republican Congressman W. R. Green, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, acknowledged that the statistics of the Bureau of Research of the American Farm Bureau that showed farmers had lost more than $ 300 million annually as a result of the tariff.

( Barbour had served as a U. S. Congressman from Virginia, Speaker of the House, and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.

< p align =" justify "> In 1991, potential owners, Dallas businessman Byron Pierce and U. S. Congressman John Bryant, became frustrated that the Texas League had no plans to expand into other Texas locations, and formed The Texas-Louisiana League.

Congressman Monga and Montiel had met with Bangladesh's Minister of Information Jamil Osman discussing media access for third world nations and receive advice in setting up a news station.

Congressman Martin Dies was investigating possible Communist influence in Hollywood in 1940 ; he in fact had a cordial meeting with Cagney.

The county was named for William Jones Lowndes ( 1782 – 1822 ), a prominent South Carolina lawyer and Congressman whose father, South Carolina Governor Rawlins Lowndes, had been a Revolutionary War leader.

Clinch County was created on February 14, 1850, by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, and was named for General Duncan L. Clinch, a decorated United States brigadier general and Georgia Congressman who had recently died.

In 1974 East Grand Rapids came to national attention as the legal domicile of Gerald R. Ford, 38th President of the United States, although, as a serving Congressman and Vice-President, Ford had, for all practical purposes, resided in the District of Columbia area for the previous twenty-five years.

The Post Office Department approved the new post office, but as the village had no name, Congressman Mann was to give it one.

In 2002, Lewis, by then a US Congressman from Georgia, returned to Rock Hill, where he had been invited as a speaker at Winthrop University and was given the key to the city.

" In response, Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, chairman of the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, stated, " It took a tongue-lashing from Congress before these high-tech titans did the right thing and coughed up some concrete assistance for the family of a journalist whom Yahoo had helped send to jail.

In his 1796 book, Congressman William Findley argued that Alexander Hamilton had deliberately provoked the Whiskey Rebellion.

El Circo ( the circus ) was a " shadow " of Chaplin's silent film, The Circus and Si yo fuera diputado (" If I Were a Congressman ") had many similarities with the 1940 film, The Great Dictator.