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_id: 00015970
data:
  activity:
    - areaCode: n-us-dc
      characterisation: noc
      end: 1863
      geonamesId: 4140963
      place: Washington
      professionOrType: cse
      start: 1812
  biographicalInformation: 1790-1863
  externalId:
    - http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ark:/99166/w6q81mpw
    - http://findingaids.loc.gov/db/search/xq/searchMfer02.xq?_id=loc.mss.eadmss.ms001030&_faSection=overview&_faSubsection=did&_dmdid=d3820e6
  gender: 1002
  name: 'Machen, Louis Henry'
  note: 'Clerk, United States Senate, 1812-1862 (principal clerk from 1843); credited with removing the records of the Senate to safekeeping during the burning of Washington by the British, 1816.'
  type: per
meta:
  history:
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    - timestamp: 2017-02-03T20:15:31