Lyman Trumbull

(noun)

A U.S. Senator from Illinois during the American Civil War and coauthor of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Examples of Lyman Trumbull in the following topics:

  • Higher Education

    • Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois believed it was advisable that the bill should be introduced by an eastern congressman, and two months later Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont introduced his bill

  • Johnson's Plan

    • Illinois senator Lyman Trumbull, leader of the moderate Republicans, recognized that the abolition of slavery was worthless without the protection of basic civil rights, and thus proposed the first Civil Rights Law.

  • The Radical Record

    • Senator Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, leader of the moderate Republicans, took the Black Codes as an affront.

  • The Temperance Movement

    • Americans such as Lyman Beecher, a Connecticut minister, had started to lecture fellow citizens against all use of liquor in 1825.
    • Lyman Beecher was a charismatic and influential preacher during the first half of the nineteenth century who championed, among other moral reforms, the temperance movement.

  • Hamilton's Achievements

  • The Aftermath of Saratoga

  • The Second Continental Congress

  • Surrender at Yorktown

    • Oil on canvas, by John Trumbull, 1820.

  • Hamilton's Economic Policy

    • Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton , shown here in a 1792 portrait by John Trumbull, released the “Report on Public Credit” in January 1790.

  • The Hartford Convention

    • This image shows a page from Theodore Lyman's 1823 book on the Hartford Convention that lists the names of New England delegates who attended the meeting.