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	OhioPix: Benjamin F. Wade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Portrait of Benjamin F. Wade from Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, ca.
		Wade was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in 1868.
		Wade died in 1878 and this portrait was produced as a memorial to the Senator after his death.
	www.ohiohistory.org /etcetera/exhibits/ohiopix/image.cfm?ID=790 (52 words)

	Benjamin Wade (1800-1878)
		Benjamin Wade was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on October 27, 1800.
		Wade labored earnestly for a vigorous prosecution of the war, was the chairman and foremost spirit of the joint committee on the conduct of the war in 1861-62, and was active in urging the passage of a Confiscation Act.
		Wade was in fact defeated for re-election in 1868 in a very close vote in the Ohio legislature after the Democrats won a narrow majority in state elections.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/wade.html (2084 words)

	Benjamin Wade Summary
		Benjamin Franklin Wade was born on Oct. 27, 1800, on a farm in Feeding Hills, Mass.
		Wade was firmly opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Bill of 1854, took a prominent part in the ensuring debates, and ultimately joined the Republican party as it formed to carry on the abolition fight.
		Wade was also critical of Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan; in 1864, he and Henry Winter Davis sponsored a bill that would run the South, when conquered, their way.
	www.bookrags.com /Benjamin_Wade (1050 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Wade - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Wade, Benjamin Franklin 1800-1878, U.S. Senator from Ohio (1851-69), b.
		During the Civil War, Wade and his radical Republican colleagues set up the meddlesome committee on the conduct of the war, of which he was chairman.
		As president protempore of the Senate, Wade was next in line for the presidency, and he eagerly awaited Johnson's conviction on impeachment charges.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wade-ben.html (456 words)

	Benjamin Franklin Wade
		Wade was present at the battle of Bull Run with other congressmen in a carriage, and it is related that after the defeat seven of them alighted, at Wade's proposal, being armed with revolvers, and for a quarter of an hour kept back the stream of fugitives near Fairfax Court-House.
		Wade labored earnestly for a vigorous prosecution of the war, was the chairman and foremost spirit of the joint committee on the conduct of the war in 1861-'2, and was active in urging the passage of a confiscation bill.
		Wade had been called" Frank Wade" in Ohio, from his middle name, he was known in congress and throughout the country as Ben or "Old Ben" Wade.
	www.famousamericans.net /benjaminfranklinwade (1060 words)

	Decius Wade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wade was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, where he spent the early years of his life.
		Wade was admitted to the bar in 1857, and in 1860 he was elected probate judge of Ashtabula County, a position he held for seven years.
		Wade, at that time one of the most prominent lawyers in the state, is considered to have been the most important advocate for codification.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Decius_Wade (738 words)

	Benjamin Wade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Benjamin Wade's first job was as a laborer on the Erie Canal.
		At the beginning of the 40th Congress, Wade became the President pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, which meant that he was the Acting Vice President and next in line for the presidency (as Johnson had no vice president).
		This man was Senator Benjamin Wade, of Ohio, President pro tempore of the U. Senate who as the law then stood, would have succeeded to the presidency in the event of a vacancy in the office from any cause.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_Wade (786 words)

	Civil War, in U.S. history. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The forts guarding New Orleans, the largest Confederate port, fell (Apr. 28, 1862) to a fleet under David G. Farragut, and the city was occupied by troops commanded by Benjamin F. Butler (1818–93).
		This act appeased for a time the anti-Lincoln radical Republicans in Congress, among them Benjamin F. Wade, Zachariah Chandler, Thaddeus Stevens, and Henry W. Davis, with whom Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase and Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton were allied.
		The chairman, Benjamin F. Wade, was frequently at odds with Lincoln, and the committee’s investigations and high-handed actions lowered morale among the Union forces.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ci/CivilWarUS.html (3058 words)

	Benjamin F. Wade
		In the Senate Wade was from the first an uncompromising opponent of slavery, his bitter denunciations of that institution and of the slaveholders receiving added force from his rugged honesty and sincerity.
		As long as President Andrew Johnson promised severe treatment of the conquered South, Wade supported him, but when the President definitively adopted the more lenient policy of his predecessor, Wade became one of his most bitter and uncompromising opponents.
		His son,,James Franklin Wade, was colonel of the 6th United States (colored) cavalry during the Civil War, and attained the rank of major-general in the regular army in 1903, commanding the army in the Philippines in 1903-04.
	www.nndb.com /people/047/000103735 (612 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: Benjamin F. Wade (1800-1878)
		Wade served as chairman of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War and the Senate Committee on Territories.
		Lincoln and Senator Wade: "On March 6, 1863, several weeks after replacing Burnside with Hooker, Lincoln met with his new commander of the Army of the Potomac and with influential Republican Senator Benjamin Wade, chairman of the powerful Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War.
		Wade's abrasive personality and position on issues such as inflation may have caused some senators to doubt the wisdom of impeachment.
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=164&subjectID=2 (624 words)

	Bruce Tap \| Amateurs at War: Abraham Lincoln and the Committee on the Conduct of the War \| Journal of the Abraham ...
		Wade and Chandler were among the foremost radical Republicans in the Senate.
		After McClellan departed, Wade asked, "Chandler, what do you think of the science of generalship?" "I don't know much about war," Chandler retorted, "but it seems to me that this is infernal, unmitigated cowardice." A few weeks later, the committee again tried to pressure McClellan to move forward.
		Wade, Chandler, and Julian, for instance, spurned the notion of setting aside partisan labels and adopting the Union party as their mantra.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jala/23.2/tap.html (6594 words)

	Benjamin Butler
		Wade, who believed in women's suffrage and trade union rights, was considered by many members of the
		Officers under Benjamin F. Butler have been in many instances, active and zealous agents in the commission of these crimes, and no instance is known of the refusal of any one of them to participate in the outrages.
		I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, and in their name, do pronounce and declare the said Benjamin F. Butler to be a felon, deserving of capital punishment.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASbutlerB.htm (2922 words)

	Benjamin Franklin WADE — Infoplease.com
		“Benjamin Franklin Wade: The Road to Radical Republicanism.” Master’s thesis, Wayne State University, 1954.
		“Ben Wade and the Failure of the Impeachment of Johnson.” Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio Bulletin 18 (October 1960): 241-52.
		“Benjamin F. Wade and the Atrocity Propaganda of the Civil War.” Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Quarterly 48 (January 1939): 33-43.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/us/congress/wade-benjamin-franklin.html (242 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Wade
		Wade, G. — of Malcolm, Charles County, Md. Republican.
		Wade, Henry M. — also known as "The Chief" — of Texas.
		Wade, Rick — of Columbia, Richland County, S.C. Democrat.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/wade.html (605 words)

	Wade - Davis Bill
		Civil War Monument, Monument Park, Adrian, Lenawee County, MI At the end of the Civil War, this bill created a framework for Reconstruction and the readmittance of the Confederate states to the Union.
		A more stringent plan was proposed by Senator Benjamin F. Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis in February 1864.
		The Wade-Davis Bill required that 50 percent of a state's white males take a loyalty oath to be readmitted to the Union.
	www.classbrain.com /artteenst/publish/article_55.shtml (905 words)

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		Senate members included Republicans Benjamin F Wade of Ohio (chairman) and Zachariah Chandler of Michigan, two of the most prominent radicals in the Republican Party.
		In the House, Republican Benjamin F. Loan replaced John Covode, who had not sought reelection to Congress in 1862.
		During the thirty--seventh session of Congress, the committee conducted major investigations of the battles of First Bull Run and Balls Bluff and the operations of the Army of the Potomac (the Peninsula campaign, the Second Bull Run and Antietam campaigns, and the battle of Fredericksburg).
	www.civilwarhome.com /committee.htm (1465 words)

	Wade-Davies Act
		In Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis, sponsored a bill that provided for the administration of the affairs of southern states by provisional governors until the end of the war.
		On 5th August, Wade and Henry Winter Davis published an attack on Lincoln in the New York Tribune.
		Benjamin Wade, speech in the Senate (21st April, 1862)
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USASwadedavis.htm (561 words)

	Congress, Law, and Politics
		The course of the American Revolution and the creation of the nation that followed may be investigated in the papers of our earliest lawmakers, among them, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James McHenry, James Monroe, Robert Morris, and Roger Sherman.
		Other members, all later to be elected to the presidency and represented by collections of various sizes and complexion, include Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln.
		Dominant members were Benjamin F. Wade, Thaddeus Stevens, and Zachariah Chandler, all of whose papers are in the Manuscript Division.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/mcchtml/polihm.html (1443 words)

	Congress (Library of Congress Manuscripts: An Illustrated Guide)
		William Maclay, although less renowned, having served only two years (1789-91) as a senator from Pennsylvania, compiled a three- volume diary that chronicles the First Federal Congress; it is a classic document of the highest importance.
		Its dominant members were Benjamin F. Wade, Thaddeus Stevens, and Zachariah Chandler, all of whose papers are in the Manuscript Division.
		In the aftermath of the war, as the nation attempted to right itself, Congress faced problems involving the freed slaves, the formulation and passage of amendments affecting civil rights, the impeachment of Andrew Johnson, and the restoration of order in the South.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/guide/congress.html (847 words)

	Buffalo Soldiers
		Senator Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio proposed that two of the cavalry regiments should be composed of fl enlisted personnel.
		The 9th Cavalry Regiment was organized on September 21, 1866 at Greenville, Louisiana under the command of Colonel Edward Hatch, and was assigned to the Division of the Gulf under the command of General Phillip Sheridan.
		The 10th Cavalry Regiment was organized on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas under the command of Colonel Benjamin H.
	www.coax.net /people/lwf/BUFFPAGE.HTM (427 words)

	Joshua R. Giddings, Page 1
		In 1831 Giddings formed a partnership with Benjamin Wade.
		Famous in the history of the abolitionist movement, this office at one time served both Joshua R. Giddings and his friend and colleague, Benjamin F. Wade.
		Wade was elected president of the Senate during the Johnson administration and, as such, would have become president of the United States had one more senator voted for the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
	ashtcohs.com /josh2.html (272 words)

	Zachariah T. Chandler (1813-1879)
		This letter contained the sentence, "Without a little blood-letting this Union will not, in my estimation, be worth a rush." The letter was quoted throughput the country, and Chandler defended his statement on the floor of the Senate.
		He was closely associated with Senators Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio and Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, whom Lincoln's secretary and biographer John Hay derisively referred to as the "Jacobin Club", alluding to the infamous extremists of the French Revolution.
		In July, 1861, Chandler, along with Wade, Trumbull and James Grimes, witnessed the First Battle of Bull Run, which was a disaster for the Union forces.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/chandler.html (990 words)

	WADE, Benjamin Franklin (1800-1878) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		“Benjamin Franklin Wade: The ‘Buckeye’ Radical: 1861-1865.” Ph.D. dissertation, Columbia University, 1949.
		“Ben Wade and the Negro.” Ohio Historical Quarterly 68 (April 1959): 161-76.
		“The Motivation of a Radical Republican: Benjamin F. Wade.” Ohio History 73 (Spring 1964): 63-74.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=W000005 (191 words)

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		JAMES K. was President of the Atlantic and Ohio Telegraph Co., which later became Western Union Telegraph Co., before his election as Representative from Pennsylvania.
		BENJAMIN F., Representative from Massachusetts, was one of the House managers appointed to conduct impeachment proceedings against President Johnson.
		Senator BENJAMIN F. of Ohio was President Pro Tempore of the Senate and would have been 18th U.S. President had Johnson been removed from office.
	www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=675 (788 words)

	The Religious Beliefs Of Our Presidents
		Yet in the face of this, it is a strange fact that prior to the election of Benjamin Harrison, in 1888, there had not been one President who was unquestionably a member of an orthodox Church at the time of his election.
		This states that if the "f" had been left out of the "life," making the title of Weems' book, 'The Lie of Washington,' its real character would be aptly described.
		Dr. Benjamin Rush was one of the ablest physicians of his time and a patriot of the Revolution.
	www.infidels.org /library/historical/franklin_steiner/presidents.html (19860 words)

	85.05.03: Lincoln, the Great Emancipator?
		In researching this unit I wasn’t surprised to find that slave owners had racist attitudes but, it was somewhat shocking to find that some of the staunch supporters of emancipation also harbored racist attitudes.
		For example, Benjamin F. Wade, a Radical Republican senator from Ohio, complained in a letter (to his wife) that the food in Washington D.C. was horrible, all “cooked by Niggers until I can smell and taste the Nigger.
		I think that comments made by Benjamin F. Wade bring to the forefront the question of how the same people who were fighting to abolish slavery could also display racist attitudes.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1985/5/85.05.03.x.html (4920 words)

	AllRefer.com - Henry Winter Davis (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Again (1863–65) in Congress, he bitterly attacked Lincoln's gradual assumption of extraconstitutional powers and opposed his Reconstruction program.
		Davis and Benjamin F. Wade substituted for Lincoln's measures a much more thorough and radical plan of their own and succeeded in forcing it through both House and Senate, only to see it killed by Lincoln's pocket veto (1864).
		They replied with the Wade-Davis Manifesto, an angry attack on the President's plan and actions.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/D/DavisHW.html (322 words)

	H-Net Review: Frederick J. Blue on For the Union: Ohio Leaders in the Civil War
		Instead, the essays cover the leading Democratic dissenter (Clement L. Vallandigham), a civilian general (James H. Garfield), two correspondents (Whitelaw Reid and Murat Halstead), a Radical Republican senator (Benjamin F. Wade), a minister (Charles P. McIlvane), an industrialist (Miles Greenwood), a moderate Republican senator (John Sherman), and two political humorists (Artemus Ward and Petroleum Nasby).
		Like Whitelaw Reid, Benjamin Wade was among Lincoln's sharpest critics.
		Mary Land's interpretation of Wade emphasizes his role as chair of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War to voice his vigorous dissatisfaction with Lincoln's prosecution of the war and to lead the efforts to remove General George B. McClellan from his command.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=16579927566454 (1346 words)

	Impeachment of Andrew Johnson
		However, some of the Senators quietly questioned the wisdom of removing the president who had only a year remaining on his term.
		Further, his replacement would have been Benjamin F. Wade of Ohio, an extreme radical who supported workers’ rights and woman suffrage — highly contentious issues in that day.
		The vote in the Senate was 35-19 for conviction, one vote short of the necessary two-thirds.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h418.html (573 words)

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