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- Thaddeus_Stevens abstract "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 the larger city of Lancaster. There, he joined the Whig Party, and was elected to Congress in 1848. His activities as a lawyer and politician in opposition to slavery cost him votes and he did not seek reelection in 1852. After a brief flirtation with the Know-Nothing Party, Stevens joined the newly formed Republican Party, and was elected to Congress again in 1858. There, with fellow radicals such as Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner, he opposed the expansion of slavery and concessions to the South as war came.Stevens argued that slavery should not survive the war; he was frustrated by the slowness of President Abraham Lincoln to support his position. He guided the government's financial legislation through the House as Ways and Means chairman. As the war progressed towards a northern victory, Stevens came to believe that not only should slavery be abolished, but that African-Americans should be given a stake in the South's future through the confiscation of land from planters to be distributed to the freedmen. His plans went too far for the Moderate Republicans, and were not enacted.After Lincoln's assassination in April 1865, Stevens came into conflict with the new president, Johnson, who sought rapid restoration of the seceded states without guarantees for freedmen. The difference in views caused an ongoing battle between Johnson and Congress, with Stevens leading the Radical Republicans. After gains in the 1866 election the radicals took control of Reconstruction away from Johnson. Stevens's last great battle was to secure articles of impeachment in the House against Johnson, though the Senate did not convict the President. Historiographical views of Stevens have dramatically shifted over the years, from the early 20th-century view of Stevens as reckless and motivated by hatred of the white South, to the perspective of the neoabolitionists of the 1950s and afterwards, who applauded him for his egalitarian views.".
- Thaddeus_Stevens activeYearsEndDate "1853-03-03".
- Thaddeus_Stevens activeYearsEndDate "1868-08-11".
- Thaddeus_Stevens activeYearsStartDate "1849-03-04".
- Thaddeus_Stevens activeYearsStartDate "1859-03-04".
- Thaddeus_Stevens almaMater Dartmouth_College.
- Thaddeus_Stevens almaMater University_of_Vermont.
- Thaddeus_Stevens birthDate "1792-04-04".
- Thaddeus_Stevens birthPlace Danville,_Vermont.
- Thaddeus_Stevens birthPlace United_States.
- Thaddeus_Stevens birthYear "1792".
- Thaddeus_Stevens deathDate "1868-08-11".
- Thaddeus_Stevens deathPlace United_States.
- Thaddeus_Stevens deathPlace Washington,_D.C..
- Thaddeus_Stevens deathYear "1868".
- Thaddeus_Stevens party Anti-Masonic_Party.
- Thaddeus_Stevens party Federalist_Party.
- Thaddeus_Stevens party Know_Nothing.
- Thaddeus_Stevens party Republican_Party_(United_States).
- Thaddeus_Stevens party Whig_Party_(United_States).
- Thaddeus_Stevens region Pennsylvania.
- Thaddeus_Stevens region Pennsylvania's_8th_congressional_district.
- Thaddeus_Stevens region Pennsylvania's_9th_congressional_district.
- Thaddeus_Stevens restingPlace Lancaster,_Pennsylvania.
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- Thaddeus_Stevens after Charles_Sumner.
- Thaddeus_Stevens after Henry_Augustus_Muhlenberg.
- Thaddeus_Stevens after Justin_Smith_Morrill.
- Thaddeus_Stevens after Oliver_James_Dickey.
- Thaddeus_Stevens align "right".
- Thaddeus_Stevens almaMater Dartmouth_College.
- Thaddeus_Stevens almaMater University_of_Vermont.
- Thaddeus_Stevens before Abraham_Lincoln.
- Thaddeus_Stevens before Anthony_Ellmaker_Roberts.
- Thaddeus_Stevens before John_Sherman.
- Thaddeus_Stevens before John_Strohm_(congressman).
- Thaddeus_Stevens birthDate "1792-04-04".
- Thaddeus_Stevens birthPlace "Danville, Vermont, U.S.".
- Thaddeus_Stevens caption "1860.0".
- Thaddeus_Stevens dateOfBirth "1792-04-04".
- Thaddeus_Stevens dateOfDeath "1868-08-11".
- Thaddeus_Stevens deathDate "1868-08-11".
- Thaddeus_Stevens deathPlace "Washington, D.C., U.S.".
- Thaddeus_Stevens district "8".
- Thaddeus_Stevens district "9".
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- Thaddeus_Stevens name "Stevens, Thaddeus".
- Thaddeus_Stevens name "Thaddeus Stevens".
- Thaddeus_Stevens nickname "* Thad * "The Old Commoner" * "The Great Commoner"".
- Thaddeus_Stevens party "* Federalist * Anti-Masonic * Whig * Know-Nothing * Republican".
- Thaddeus_Stevens placeOfBirth Danville,_Vermont.
- Thaddeus_Stevens placeOfBirth United_States.
- Thaddeus_Stevens placeOfDeath United_States.
- Thaddeus_Stevens placeOfDeath Washington,_D.C..
- Thaddeus_Stevens preceded Anthony_Ellmaker_Roberts.
- Thaddeus_Stevens preceded John_Strohm_(congressman).
- Thaddeus_Stevens profession "Lawyer".
- Thaddeus_Stevens quote "Abolition—Yes! abolish everything on the face of the earth but this Union; free every slave—slay every traitor—burn every rebel mansion, if these things be necessary to preserve this temple of freedom to the world and to our posterity.".
- Thaddeus_Stevens quote "I repose in this quiet and secluded spot Not from any natural preference for solitude But, finding other Cemeteries limited as to Race :by Charter Rules I have chosen this that I might illustrate :in my death The Principles which I advocated :through a long life; EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR".
- Thaddeus_Stevens quote "It is my purpose nowhere in these remarks to make personal reproaches; I entertain no ill-will toward any human being, nor any brute, that I know of, not even the [Democratic] skunk across the way to which I referred. Least of all would I reproach the South. I honor her courage and fidelity. Even in a bad, a wicked cause, she shows a united front. All her sons are faithful to the cause of human bondage, because it is their cause. But the North—the poor, timid, mercenary, driveling North—has no such united defenders of her cause, although it is the cause of human liberty ... She is offered up a sacrifice to propitiate southern tyranny—to conciliate southern treason.".
- Thaddeus_Stevens restingplace "Shreiner-Concord Cemetery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania".
- Thaddeus_Stevens salign "right".
- Thaddeus_Stevens shortDescription "American politician".
- Thaddeus_Stevens signature "T Stevens Signature.svg".
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- Thaddeus_Stevens source "The inscription on Stevens's grave".
- Thaddeus_Stevens state Pennsylvania.
- Thaddeus_Stevens state "Pennsylvania".
- Thaddeus_Stevens succeeded Henry_Augustus_Muhlenberg.
- Thaddeus_Stevens succeeded Oliver_James_Dickey.
- Thaddeus_Stevens termEnd "1853-03-03".
- Thaddeus_Stevens termEnd "1868-08-11".
- Thaddeus_Stevens termStart "1849-03-04".