Thaddeus Stevens, was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. He, Charles Sumner, and John C. Frémont were the powerful leaders of the Radical Republicans during the American Civil War and Reconstruction. His biographer characterizes him as, "The Great Commoner, savior of free public education in Pennsylvania, … Wikipedia
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Known primarily as an extreme Radical Republican, Thaddeus Stevens was in fact a champion of the equality of man-rich and poor, black and white. www.civilwarhome.com/stevensbio.htm
Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian . Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000887/
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