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Hace 4 días · “*Super Lawyer Thaddeus Stevens*\n\nBy Ross Hetrick\n\nOf all Thaddeus Stevens’s abilities, his talent as a lawyer was his\ngreatest. In a June 28, 1885 article in the *Baltimore American, *a person\nwho knew him said this: \”Mr. Stevens was regarded by many people with an\nair of superstition.
Hace 1 día · We see Thaddeus Stevens’ commitment to building social, economic, and political power for all people. He worked tirelessly public education in Pennsylvania and for the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment which confirmed citizenship for all people born in this county, including those who had been enslaved.
Hace 1 día · As The Nation expressed in its 1868 eulogy of Thaddeus Stevens, highlighting the importance of the radical abolitionist movement broadly: "Any young politician who proposes to get on in the world by being a cowardly sneak, as thousands of young politicians do, cannot help profiting by the study of [Stevens’s] life.
Hace 1 día · The more radical members of that party—men like Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens —believed that emancipation would prove a sham unless the government guaranteed the civil and political rights of the freedmen; thus, equality of all citizens before the law became a third war aim for this powerful faction.
Hace 1 día · U.S. Representative Thaddeus Stevens was one of the major policymakers regarding Reconstruction, and obtained a House vote of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson. Hans Trefousse, his leading biographer, concludes that Stevens "was one of the most influential representatives ever to serve in Congress.
Hace 1 día · Constitutional provision for racial equality for free blacks was enacted by a Republican Congress led by Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner and Lyman Trumbull. The "second founding" comprised the 13th , 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution.
Hace 4 días · He won more than a thousand cases during his legal career, according to the book, Thaddeus Stevens in Gettysburg: The Making of an Abolitionist by Bradley R. Hoch. And after Stevens moved to Lancaster, PA in 1842 he earned $15,000 a year, the equivalent of $357,000 in 2004 dollars, the book said.
