Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevenswas a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and one of the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. A fierce opponent of slavery and discrimination against African-Americans, Stevens sought to secure their rights during Reconstruction, in opposition to President Andrew Johnson. As chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee during the American Civil War, he played a major part in the war's financing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 April 1792
CityDanville, VT
CountryUnited States of America
Thaddeus Stevens quotes about
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture which would excite them in the first dance of their freedom.
Retain, even in opposition, your capacity for astonishment.