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LYMAN TRUMBULL (1813-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 325 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRUMBULL (1813-1896)  , See also:American jurist and See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born at See also:Colchester, See also:Connecticut, on the 12th of See also:October 1813, and was a See also:grandson of See also:Benjamin See also:Trumbull (1735-1820), a Congregational preacher and the author of a useful See also:Complete See also:History of Connecticut (2 vols., 1818) . He taught in See also:Georgia, studied See also:law, and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1837 . Removing to See also:Belleville, See also:Illinois, in the same See also:year, he was elected to the See also:state See also:House of Representatives as a Democrat in 184o, and in 1841-1843 was secretary of state of Illinois . In 1848-18J3 he was a See also:justice of the state Supreme See also:Court, and in 1855-1873 was a member of the See also:United States See also:Senate . Elected as an See also:Anti-See also:Nebraska Democrat, he naturally joined the Re-publicans, and when this party secured See also:control in the Senate he was made chairman of the important judiciary See also:committee, from which he reported the Thirteenth See also:Amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolishing See also:slavery . Through-out the See also:Civil See also:War he was a trusted counsellor of the See also:president . In the See also:impeachment trial of President See also:Andrew See also:Johnson he was one of the seven Republicans who voted to acquit, and he after-wards returned to the Democratic party . After 1873 he practised law in See also:Chicago, was the Democratic See also:candidate for See also:governor of Illinois in 188o, became a Populist in 1894, and defended the railway strikers in Chicago in the same year . He died in Chicago on the 25th of See also:June 1896 .

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