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TRUMBULL, LYMAN (1813-1896)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 325 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TRUMBULL, LYMAN (1813-1896) , See also:

AMERICAN

American jurist and See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

LEADER, BENJAMIN WILLIAMS (1831– )

leader, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

Colchester, See also:

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut, on the 12th of See also:

OCTOBER

October 1813, and was a See also:

GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson of See also:

Benjamin Trumbull (1735-1820), a Congregational preacher and the author of a useful See also:

COMPLETE

Complete See also:

HISTORY

History of Connecticut (2 vols., 1818). He taught in See also:

GEORGIA

Georgia, studied See also:

law, and was admitted to the See also:

bar in 1837. Removing to See also:

BELLEVILLE

Belleville, See also:

ILLINOIS

Illinois, in the same See also:

YEAR

year, he was elected to the See also:

state See also:

House of Representatives as a Democrat in 184o, and in 1841-1843 was secretary of state of Illinois. In 1848-18J3 he was a See also:

JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice of the state Supreme See also:

Court, and in 1855-1873 was a member of the See also:

UNITED

United States See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate. Elected as an See also:

ANTI, or CAMPA

Anti-See also:

NEBRASKA

Nebraska Democrat, he naturally joined the Re-publicans, and when this party secured See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control in the Senate he was made chairman of the important judiciary See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee, from which he reported the Thirteenth See also:

AMENDMENT (through the O. Fr. amender, to correct, from Lat. mendum, a fault)

Amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolishing See also:

SLAVERY

slavery. Through-out the See also:

CIVIL

Civil See also:

War he was a trusted counsellor of the See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

president. In the See also:

IMPEACHMENT (O. Fr. empeahement, empeschement, from em pecher or empescher, to hinder, Late Lat. impedicare, to entangle, pedica, fetter, pes, foot)

impeachment trial of President See also:

Andrew See also:

Johnson he was one of the seven Republicans who voted to acquit, and he after-wards returned to the Democratic party. After 1873 he practised law in See also:

Chicago, was the Democratic See also:

CANDIDATE

candidate for See also:

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor of Illinois in 188o, became a Populist in 1894, and defended the railway strikers in Chicago in the same year. He died in Chicago on the 25th of See also:

JUNE

June 1896.

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