Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. A fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination against African-Americans, Stevens sought to secure their rights during Reconstruction, in opposition to President Andrew Johnson. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee during the American Civil War, he played a major part in the war's financing.
Stevens was born in rural Vermont, in poverty, and with a club foot, giving him a limp he kept his entire life. He moved to Pennsylvania as a young man, and quickly became a successful lawyer in Gettysburg. He interested himself in municipal affairs, and then in politics. He was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, where he became a strong advocate of free public education. Financial setbacks in 1842 caused him to move his home and practice to th…more
Stevens was born in rural Vermont, in poverty, and with a club foot, giving him a limp he kept his entire life. He moved to Pennsylvania as a young man, and quickly became a successful lawyer in Gettysburg. He interested himself in municipal affairs, and then in politics. He was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, where he became a strong advocate of free public education. Financial setbacks in 1842 caused him to move his home and practice to th…more
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Lincoln
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1984
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Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877
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1988
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The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
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2019
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Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War
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1971
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Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice
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Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian
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1997
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Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South
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1959
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Final Freedom: The Civil War, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Thirteenth Amendment
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1997
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Thaddeus Stevens (1899)
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1899
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The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens: Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era
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