Desk 80 in the US Senate is informally called the “candy desk.” This is because it contains candies available to any member of the US Senate for free. It was created by Senator George Murphy, elected to Congress in 1965. Senator Murphy often took candy to Congress and shared it with other senators, irrespective of party. Murphy never got reelected, but the senator who got his seat kept his tradition going [https://tinyurl.com/yfes4xhf].
Q: Though three presidents (Adams, Jefferson, and Monroe) died on the 4th of July, which president was the only president to have been born on that date?
A: Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933), 30th President. Coolidge was born on July 4, 1872 in Plymouth Notch, Vermont and is the only president to be born on Independence Day.
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 ended the Revolutionary War and recognized the sovereignty of the United States over the territory bounded by what is now Canada to the north, Florida to the south, and the Mississippi River to the west.
Until The Building Was Finished, Court Was Sometimes Held At Bars: In 1809, the Supreme Court of the United States held their meeting at Long’s Tavern in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, from 1815-1816, they met at Bell’s Tavern. It wasn’t until 1860 when the Supreme Court Room (the Old Senate Chamber in the U.S. Capitol) was finally ready for usage.
The four pages of the Constitution are on permanent display at the National Archives. But there is a fifth page. It is the Letter of Transmittal of the newly written Constitution to the Congress that existed under the Articles of Confederation. The letter, which briefly describes the Constitution, is signed by George Washington, president of the Constitutional Convention. It is dated September 17, 1787, the anniversary of which we celebrate each year as Constitution Day.
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