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Charles Sumner

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Sumner, Charles 

Born Jan. 6, 1811, in Boston, Mass.; died Mar. 11, 1874, in Washington, D.C. US political figure.

Sumner was educated as a lawyer. He joined the Free Soil Party, and in 1851 he was elected to the US Senate. In 1854 he joined the Republican Party. He was a strong opponent of slavery. During the Civil War he was chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and one of the organizers of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War. He advocated a vigorous prosecution of the war and insisted on the eradication of slavery and the granting of civil rights to Negroes. He also favored severe punishment for slaveholders and the turning over of slaveholders’ lands to former slaves. After the war, Sumner fought consistently against racial discrimination.
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She was the first wife of the late Charles Sumner Barton of Southborough, Mass.
Elizabeth Chandler (Bullock) Barton, 93 by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
Beauregard [BOW-ruh-gard], a Confederate Army officer William Howard Russell, a British newspaper reporter * Jack Moore, an American newspaper reporter Congressman Alfred Ely, from New York Senator Charles Sumner, from Massachusetts * Hannah Hayes, a girl living near Manassas, Virginia Mathew Brady, a well-known photographer Abner Small David Bates Union soldiers * Zeke Jones * Aide, to General Beauregard Captian James D.
Bloody Sunday: Northerners expected the first major battle of the ... by Wilmore, Kathy / Junior Scholastic
Much of counsels' arguments are reproduced here, including the brilliant statements by one of Sharp's lawyers arguing for the first time as a barrister, later described by American abolitionist Charles Sumner as "one of the masterpieces of the bar.
Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End ... by Gwynn, Ellen B. / Florida Bar Journal
 
 
 
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