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- Lyman Trumbull (October 12, 1813 – June 25, 1896) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who represented the state of Illinois in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1873.
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Lyman Trumbull (October 12, 1813 – June 25, 1896) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who represented the state of Illinois in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1873.
Jun 22, 2024 · Lyman Trumbull was a U.S. senator from Illinois whose independent views during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras caused him to switch from the Democratic Party to the Republican to the Liberal Republican and back to the Democratic Party in his long political career.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jan 12, 2024 · Lyman Trumbull served as a United States Senator from Illinois for nearly three decades. During his tenure, he spearheaded the enactment of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
- Harry Searles
Jun 11, 2018 · Lyman Trumbull (1813-1896), American statesman, was an influential senator during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Lyman Trumbull was born on Oct. 12, 1813, in Colchester, Conn.
Apr 6, 2020 · Early in his career, as the leading anti-slavery lawyer in Illinois in the 1830s, he won the cases constricting and then abolishing slavery in that state; six decades later, Trumbull represented imprisoned labor leader Eugene Debs in the Supreme Court, and wrote the Populist Party platform.
- David B Kopel
- 2016
An Illinois state supreme court judge (1848–1853) and United States senator (1855–1873), Lyman Trumbull opposed all slavery expansion before 1861, and during the secession crisis he argued that the Constitution already adequately protected slavery and no amendments, concessions, or compromises were necessary. A strong supporter of the Union ...
Feb 6, 2024 · Paul M. Rego’s "Lyman Trumbull and the Second Founding of the United States" gives students and scholars alike a study of the congressional career of a Democrat-turned-Republican as he advocated for important legislation to end slavery in the United States.
