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On the recordMarch 8, 1859
It has become my sad duty to announce to the Senate the death of Aaron V. Brown, late Postmaster-General, at his residence in this city on yesterday morning at twenty minutes past 9 o'clock.
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James Buchanan
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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