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Thaddeus Stevens ( Danville, Vermont; 4 de abril de 1792- Washington D.C, 11 de agosto de 1868) fue un político y orador estadounidense. Elegido por Pensilvania, fue uno de los miembros más influyentes de la Cámara de Representantes y uno de los líderes del sector radical del Partido Republicano junto con el senador Charles Sumner durante ...
Thaddeus Stevens (April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868) was an American politician and lawyer who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, being one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s.
14 de may. de 2024 · Thaddeus Stevens was a U.S. Radical Republican congressional leader during Reconstruction (1865–77) who battled for freedmen’s rights and insisted on stern requirements for readmission of Southern states into the Union after the Civil War (1861–65).
We know Thaddeus Stevens as an ardent abolitionist who championed the rights of blacks for decades—up to, during, and after the Civil War. With other Radical Republicans, he agitated for emancipation, black fighting units, and black suffrage.
2 de abr. de 2014 · Thaddeus Stevens, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives during Abraham Lincoln's presidency, fought to abolish slavery and helped draft the 14th Amendment during...
Too ill to return to Pennsylvania when Congress adjourned in July 1868, Stevens died just weeks later in Washington at age 76. Thousands viewed his casket or attended his funeral before he was buried in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This is the Civil War Trust's biography of Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
Arguably the most important opponent of slavery in American history, Thaddeus Stevens is also the most forgotten. If the abolitionist Pennsylvania congressman is known at all today, it’s thanks...
