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. Trumbull was a leading abolitionist attorney and key political ally to Abraham Lincoln and authored several landmark pieces of reform as chair of the Judiciary Committee during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era, including the Confiscation Acts, which created the legal basis for the Emancipation Proclamation; the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished chattel slavery; and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which led to the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Born in Colchester, Connecticut to a prominent political family, Trumbull studied law in Greenville, Georgia, before moving to Illinois to establish a practice and enter politics. He served as the Illinois Secretary of State from 1841 to 1843 and as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1848 to 1853. As an attorney, Trumbull successfully argued the case Jarrot v. Jarrot, which de facto banned slavery in the state.
In 1855, Trumbull was elected to the Senate as the choice of the anti-slavery faction of the Illinois legislature, defeating Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln endorsed Trumbull for the election; the two soon became leading members of the new Republican Party. After the American Civil War, Trumbull was a leading moderate Republican, favoring both civil rights for freed slaves and reconciliation with the South.
In the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson, Trumbull voted to acquit Johnson despite heavy pressure from other Republican senators. He broke with the Republicans in 1870 and was a candidate for the presidency at the 1872 Liberal Republican convention. After returning to the Democratic Party, Trumbull left the Senate in 1873 to establish a legal practice in Chicago. Before his death in 1896, he became a member of the Populist Party and represented Eugene V. Debs before the Supreme Court of the United States.
LymanTrumbull (October 12, 1813 – June 25, 1896) was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who represented the state of Illinois in the United States...
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The author of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was United States Senator LymanTrumbull. Congressman James F. Wilson summarized what he considered to be the...
obtain a majority. Lincoln instructed his backers to vote for LymanTrumbull. Trumbull was an antislavery Democrat, and had received few votes in the...
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amendment abolishing slavery. The Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by LymanTrumbull of Illinois, became involved in merging different proposals for an amendment...
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disappointment, stalled in the Senate before he could veto it. Illinois Senator LymanTrumbull, leader of the Moderate Republicans and Chairman of the Judiciary Committee...
foreign affairs who broke with Grant in 1872 Albion W. Tourgée: novelist LymanTrumbull: senator from Illinois with strongly anti-slavery sentiments, but otherwise...
until the 1910s; around this time, the park was officially named for LymanTrumbull, a United States senator from Illinois who co-wrote the Thirteenth Amendment...
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forced to aid or abet the insurrection. The legislation, sponsored by LymanTrumbull, was passed on a near-unanimous vote and established military emancipation...
Lincoln, who was also a contestant, then asked his supporters to vote for LymanTrumbull, who won on the 10th ballot. After his term as governor ended he was...
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