Author Stephen Puleo discussed the career and life of abolitionist politician Charles Sumner, who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874.

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For 45 years, Longfellow wrote and hosted luminaries, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Sumner, an abolitionist senator. Today, the house is owned and operated by the ...

Charles Sumner nearly to death on the floor of the Senate in 1856 for his criticisms of slavery, challenged Wigfall to a duel. The two slipped across the state line into Georgia where Brooks shot ...

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Charles Sumner in the Senate and Thaddeus Stevens in the House were pressing forward the Reconstruction measures based on forcing universal suffrage in the South. In conversation with me Mr ...

Early in 1953, he was serving as chief counsel to a subcommittee to the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, headed by Senator Charles Tobey ... be discussed by Sumner H.

Charles Sumner, a Boston Brahmin who wasn’t easily ... Though he was re-elected to the Senate that fall, the president-elect had other plans for him. Chase became Lincoln’s secretary of ...