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20: 444: 146: 19: 136:'s admission to the Union as the 17th state because the shield on the front of the clock's case has seventeen stars in it. However, there is no record that shows the clock celebrates Ohio's statehood and the clock was ordered twelve years after Ohio became a state, at a time when there were already eighteen states. 150: 701: 716: 353: 750: 859: 622: 864: 999: 730: 642: 405: 387: 896: 780: 744: 346: 647: 568: 432: 945: 606: 379: 339: 838: 984: 926: 916: 818: 785: 652: 911: 472: 694: 664: 117: 427: 109: 921: 540: 417: 989: 505: 486: 482: 392: 172: 808: 629: 614: 594: 422: 362: 871: 636: 586: 510: 460: 400: 396: 222: 707: 669: 491: 881: 573: 412: 886: 854: 775: 770: 535: 833: 765: 906: 737: 687: 545: 108:
in 1859. There is no evidence to support the claim that senators hid illegal liquor in the clock during the
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The source of the clock's name is unknown. One myth is that the clock was meant to commemorate
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ordered the eleven-foot (3.35 m) tall clock in late December 1815 from
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in 1815, and it has stood in or near the Senate Chamber since 1859.
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First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln
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Charles P. Higgins turns forward the Ohio Clock for the first
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and was moved to the corridor outside the newly finished
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Letter from Sen. David Daggett Ordering 'Ohio' Clock
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