Template:On this day/February 27

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February 27:

• 1801 – The day before Thomas Jefferson resigned his duties as president of the Senate, the publication of A Manual of Parliamentary Practice was announced in a Washington newspaper. Written by Jefferson, it is the first American book on parliamentary procedure and become the procedural handbook for the Senate. About twelve years after Jefferson's death in 1826, the House adapts the Manual of Parliamentary Practice for its own use. The 1993 edition, still in use today in the Senate, includes Jefferson's preface and a list of the sources he used in writing it.
• 1996 – Margaret Lewis, a member of the faculty at the Jefferson School who taught alongside her husband, Paul Lewis, died. Her obituary was featured on the front page of the Daily Progress. She was buried in the Daughters of Zion Cemetery. Margaret outlived her husband and all 13 of their children.
• 1996 – Booker T. Reaves, Sr. died.