Baltimore & the Fifteenth Amendment, May 19, 1870
An Interactive Historical Investigation by David Troy © 1996
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THADDEUS
STEVENS Politician, abolitionist. Portrait taken from Metcalf & Clark Lithograph. |
| THADDEUS STEVENS was born in Vermont and educated at Dartmouth. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, initially in the Whig party. In 1855, he became a Republican. Stevens was one of the first to argue for unconditional emancipation and full Negro suffrage. He also played a leading role in the impeachment of Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson. He died in August, 1868. Like Lincoln and Henry Winter Davis (both of whom are depicted in the Baltimore lithographs), Stevens never lived to see the ratification of the 15th Amendment. Source: Summarized from Microsoft Encarta. |
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