" In keeping with that sentiment, Lincoln led the moderates regarding Reconstruction policy, and was opposed by the Radical Republicans, under Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, Sen. Charles Sumner and Sen. Benjamin Wade, political allies of the president on other issues.

Democratic conservatives approved, while the Radical Republicans, lead by Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner and Ben Wade, were appalled by Johnson's anti-negro policies.

On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.

The film follows two juxtaposed families: the Northern Stonemans, consisting of the abolitionist Congressman Austin Stoneman ( based on the Reconstruction-era Congressman Thaddeus Stevens

* Hans L. Trefousse ; Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian.

Garfield, who shared the opinion of Thaddeus Stevens, was not in favor of this action, because the rank was intended for Grant, who had dismissed Rosecrans.

Congressman Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts led the Radicals.

Thaddeus Stevens and his followers viewed secession as having left the states in a status like new territories.

Thaddeus Stevens vehemently opposed President Johnson's plans for an abrupt end to Reconstruction, insisting that Reconstruction must " revolutionize Southern institutions, habits, and manners … The foundations of their institutions … must be broken up and relaid, or all our blood and treasure have been spent in vain.

Radical Republican leader Thaddeus Stevens proposed, unsuccessfully, that all former Confederates lose the right to vote for five years.

Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens, leaders of the Radical Republicans, were initially hesitant to enfranchise the largely illiterate former slave population.

The Radicals were led by Charles Sumner in the Senate and Thaddeus Stevens in the House of Representatives.

Lithograph of Thaddeus Stevens

Stevens left a $ 50, 000 bequest to start an orphanage that eventually became the state-owned Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology.

Among the five defense lawyers was congressman Thaddeus Stevens.

On May 8, 1866, during a debate on the Fourteenth Amendment, Thaddeus Stevens, the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, delivered a very important speech on the amendment's intent.

The county is named for the Reconstruction era Pennsylvania politician Thaddeus Stevens.

Thaddeus Stevens, the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee of Ways and Means, which had authored an earlier version of the Legal Tender Act that would have made United States Notes a legal tender for all debts, denounced the exceptions, calling the new bill " mischievous " because it made United States Notes an intentionally depreciated currency for the masses, while the banks who loaned to the government got " sound money " in gold.

After competing at William Tennent, Cintron wrestled at Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology a Junior College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Sumner, teaming with House leader Thaddeus Stevens, defeated Andrew Johnson's reconstruction plans and imposed Radical views on the South.

Many, perhaps a majority, had been Whigs, such as William Seward, a leading presidential contender in 1860 and Lincoln's Secretary of State, Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, and Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, the leading radical newspaper.

Their most successful and systematic leader was Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens in the House of Representatives.

In Congress the most influential Radical Republicans were U. S. Senator Charles Sumner and U. S. Representative Thaddeus Stevens.

Marcantonio is referenced in the 2010 groundbreaking book A Renegade History of the United States by noted historian Thaddeus Russell in the section " Italian Americans: Out of Africa " as " one of the greatest champions of black civil rights during the 1930s and 1940s " ( p188.

* Thaddeus Stevens: Radical leader in the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

There, he associated with such eventual Radical Republicans as Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner.

Both owe their inception to Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican and abolitionist from Gettysburg.

* Thaddeus Stevens ( 1792 – 1868 ), leader of the Radical Republicans during the American Civil War and Reconstruction

Congressmen Schuyler Colfax, John Sherman, Carl Schurz, Henry Lane, and Robert Schenck took the Radical Republican positions articulated by Senator Charles Sumner and House leader Thaddeus Stevens ; they did not speak of social equality.

The effort was led by the Radical Republicans of both houses of Congress, including John Bingham, Charles Sumner, and Thaddeus Stevens.

He was an outspoken Radical Republican, standing with Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner and opposing President Andrew Johnson.

He finished third of the four candidates vying for the chairmanship of the House Republican Policy Committee, and was ultimately passed over in favor of Thaddeus McCotter ( R-MI ).

Thaddeus Stevens ( April 4, 1792 – August 11, 1868 ), of Pennsylvania, was a Republican leader and one of the most powerful members of the United States House of Representatives.

* Thaddeus McCotter ( 1965 -), member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th District, is chairman of the Republican House Policy Committee and a member of the House Financial Services Committee.

In the House, Pryor became a particular enemy of Representative Thaddeus Stevens, a Republican from Pennsylvania in favor of abolitionism.

During President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial, Trumbull and six other Republican senators were disturbed by how the likes of Thaddeus Stevens and Benjamin Wade had manipulated the proceedings against Johnson in order to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence.

Her husband, Thaddeus Caraway, was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1912, and he served in that office until 1921 when he was elected to the United States Senate where he served until he died in office in 1931.

Young Shilo Norman was the informal ward of escapologist Thaddeus Brown ( Mister Miracle I ), and he also served as an occasional stand-in.

Other locations named in honor of Thaddeus Stevens includes the community of Stevens, Pennsylvania, Stevens County, Kansas, Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Thaddeus Stevens School in Lyndon Center, Vermont, Stevens School ( York, Pennsylvania ), Thaddeus Stevens Elementary School in the Chartiers neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ( built in 1940 with architectural details by Charles Bradley Warren ), and Stevens High School ( Lancaster, Pennsylvania ).

Paul Slater ( Jim Hutton ) of the United States Cavalry is assigned by Fort Russell commander Col. Thaddeus Gearhart ( Burt Lancaster ) to escort the Wallingham Wagon Train, and merely wishes to carry out his orders.

* Burt Lancaster as Col. Thaddeus Gearhart