Week of Monday, May 5, 2008

May 5, 1813
Christopher Gore began service as a United States Senator from Massachusetts .  He was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James Lloyd.  He served until May 30, 1816.

May 5, 1818
Karl Marx, German philosopher, political economist, social scientist, and revolutionary born (d. 1883); wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848.

May 10, 1818
Paul Revere (b. January 1, 1735), American patriot and silversmith, died.