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	Thaddeus Stevens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stevens was one of the leaders of the Radical Republicans.
		As a Radical Republican, Stevens was an outspoken proponent of Reconstruction.
		Stevens was so outspoken in his condemnation of the Confederacy that the Army of Northern Virginia made a point of burning his iron business to the ground during the Gettysburg Campaign.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thaddeus_Stevens (769 words)

	How Stevens Came to Be (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thaddeus Stevens was born in Danville, Vermont on April 4, 1792.
		In 1833, Thaddeus Stevens was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
		Thaddeus Stevens was elected to the United States House of Representatives from 1849-1853 and from 1859 until his death in 1868.
	www.stevenstech.org /about/history.htm (2080 words)

	THADDEUS STEVENS - LoveToKnow Article on THADDEUS STEVENS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		During the war Stevens urged emancipation of the slave, and earnestly advocated the raising of negro regiments.
		On the motion of Stevens (Dec. 4, 1865), the two houses appointed a joint committee on reconstruction, and Stevens was made chairman of the House committee.
		Pennsylvania.i Stevens was an extreme partisan in politics; and his opponents and critics have always charged him with being vindictive and revengeful toward the South.
	www.1911ency.org /S/ST/STEVENS_THADDEUS.htm (880 words)

	STEVENS, Thaddeus (1792-1868) Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Colfax, of Indiana, and Thaddeus Stevens of Penn.
		Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania in opposition to the repeal of the Common School Law of 1834, in the House of Representatives of Pennsylvania, April 11, 1835 [microform].
		Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania on the abolition of slavery.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=S000887 (799 words)

	Stevens, Thaddeus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stevens first achieved political prominence as an Anti-Mason, and from 1833 to 1841 he served in the Pennsylvania legislature.
		After Henry W. Davis was defeated for reelection in 1864, Stevens in the House and Charles Sumner in the Senate were the leaders of the radical Republicans in Congress who opposed President Lincoln’s moderate plan of Reconstruction.
		Stevens requested that he be interred in a cemetery with African Americans rather than in a burial ground closed to them.
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/StvnsT.html (445 words)

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		Stevens was past 50 and had evidently failed in life when he came to Lancaster in 1842 and moved into the property that local folks came to call "Old Thad's House," just past the northeast corner of South Queen and East Vine streets.
		Stevens probably saw the move as a fresh start in the last bastion of Anti-Masonic power in the state, as well as a chance to put his finances in order by practicing law in a wealthy county.
		Stevens owed his political success, such as it was throughout his life, to his skill at playing the game -- the wire-pulling and dirty tricks that characterized politics in those days.
	www.etymonline.com /cw/stevens.htm (2423 words)

	Thaddeus Stevens
		Stevens served for several years in the Pennsylvania state legislature before his election to Congress in 1848 as an antislavery Whig.
		In 1856, Stevens was reelected to Congress as a member of the new antislavery Republican party, and soon wielded great power as the chair of the important House Ways and Means Committee.
		Stevens was an early and vehement critic of President Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction policy and eventually became a leader in the effort to impeach the president.
	www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com /11BiographiesKeyIndividuals/ThaddeusStevens.htm (321 words)

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		The most prominent Radical Republican in Congress during Reconstruction, Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) was born and educated in New England.
		Stevens served several terms in the legislature, where he won renown as an advocate of free public education.
		As a Congressman, Stevens during the Civil War urged the administration to free and arm the slaves and by 1865 favored fl suffrage in the South.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /reconstruction/section4/section4_stevens.html (192 words)

	Past Anti-Masons - Thaddeus Stevens
		Thaddeus Stevens was born in 1792 in Vermont.
		Rumors also began to circulate widely that Thaddeus Stevens was the white father of Dinah's unborn child, and that it was he who killed her.
		The rumors about Stevens being guilty of this crime circulated not only by word of mouth, but also in letters to the editor in newspapers, in which his name was never mentioned but in which his identity was strongly hinted at.
	www.masonicinfo.com /thaddeus.htm (2739 words)

	Labor History: Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian - Review
		Stevens' deserved reputation as a "nineteenth-century egalitarian" began when he set aside time from his prosperous law practice to defend an increasing number of runaway slaves, and to state on record his anti-slavery beliefs.
		Stevens' political career in the Pennsylvania legislature's fractious and sometimes-violent political scene paralleled the upward trajectory of his law practice.
		Stevens, a passionate believer in congressional prerogative, pushed the enveloped further when he unsuccessfully argued for the passage of a comprehensive land redistribution program.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0348/is_1_40/ai_54308699 (1004 words)

	Thaddeus Stevens
		During the war Stevens urged emancipation of the slaves, and earnestly advocated the raising of negro regiments.
		On the motion of Stevens (December 4, 1865), the two houses appointed a joint committee on reconstruction, and Stevens was made chairman of the House committee.
		Stevens was an extreme partisan in politics; and his opponents and critics have always charged him with being vindictive and revengeful toward the South.
	www.nndb.com /people/112/000097818 (764 words)

	Bryon C. Andreasen \| Review Essay \| Journal of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 21.2
		Even in cases where Stevens seemed to act with the crassest of incentives, as when he allied with the Nativists in the 1840s and the American party ("Know Nothings") in the 1850s, Trefousse finds egalitarian motives at work in an "ends justify the means" analysis.
		He concedes that Stevens was throughout his life constantly aware of his deformity, and that it may have made him more sympathetic in some contexts, and more caustic and sarcastic in others.
		Stevens failed in his longtime ambition to be elected to the Senate; he suffered from increasingly poor health; and was thwarted in several attempts to impeach President Andrew Johnson.
	jala.press.uiuc.edu /21.2/andreasen.html (2227 words)

	HarpWeek \| Elections \| 1864 Biographies
		haddeus Stevens, congressman and key proponent of Radical Reconstruction, was born in Danville, Vermont, to Sarah Morrill Stevens and Joshua Stevens, a land surveyor and cobbler.
		In his youth, Thaddeus endured poverty, a clubbed foot, and abandonment by his father, all of which may account for his lifelong affinity with the disadvantaged.
		Stevens and other Radical Republicans, however, were dismayed by President Lincoln’s caution concerning emancipation, fl civil rights, the use of fl servicemen, and reconstruction.
	elections.harpweek.com /1864/bio-1864-Full.asp?UniqueID=25&Year=1864 (462 words)

	stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yet, because of his political skills, Stevens was able to make the Anti-Masons into a powerful force in Pennsylvania politics and kept it alive in the state long after it was moribund in the rest of the country.
		In a crucial, yet little known episode, Thaddeus Stevens and Edward McPherson, the clerk of the House, were able to prevent the takeover of the Congress by southern Democrats and their allies.
		Called the "forty acres and a mule" plan, Stevens hoped to break the back of the southern aristocracy and establish a society of yeoman farmers, such as existed in the Midwest.
	www.gettysburg.edu /~rhetrick/stevens.htm (1660 words)

	Stevens, Thaddeus on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		STEVENS, THADDEUS [Stevens, Thaddeus] 1792-1868, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1849-53, 1859-68), b.
		Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania was a member of Congress and abolitionist.
		John Fugelso and Clarke Hess rip plaster in the hallway of the Thaddeus Stevens House which is threatened by expansion for a convention center in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/StvnsT1.asp (738 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -STEVENS, THADDEUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born and educated in New England, Stevens moved as a young man to the Lancaster area of Pennsylvania, where he practiced law and entered the business of iron manufacturing.
		Stevens was most closely identified during Reconstruction with his plan for the division of planters' land among the former slaves, which, he insisted, would make them "small independent landholders,...
		Fawn Brodie, Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South (1959); Ralph Korngold, Thaddeus Stevens (1955).
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_082300_stevensthadd.htm (516 words)

	Across Five Aprils: People: Thaddeus Stevens
		After he was admitted to the bar, he established a successful law practice, first in Gettysburg, then in Lancaster, developing a reputation for his use of the insanity defense, a rarity at the time.
		After the demise of the Whig Party, Stevens was reelected to the Congress in 1859 as a Republican, and soon wielded great power as the Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee.
		Stevens supported the election of Abraham Lincoln, but soon became a critic of the President’s moderate policies toward the South, favoring a war of extermination and recolonization of the South, abolishing the old state lines.
	www.kenanderson.net /educate/html/stevens3.html (249 words)

	Commentary from
		Stevens was particularly unyielding, going so far as to advocate taking land away from plantation owners and giving it to their former slaves.
		Disappointed, Stevens said that he would “take all I can get in the cause of humanity and leave it to be perfected by better men in better times.” Stevens would have taken great pleasure in knowing that the “better man” (Martin Luther King) was a fl man from a Southern state.
		Stevens was born in poverty, but rose to become possibly the most powerful man in America.
	www.house.gov /pitts/press/commentary/020425c-stevens.htm (707 words)

	Thaddeus Stevens Biography Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Known primarily as an extreme Radical Republican, Thaddeus Stevens was in fact a champion of the equality of man-rich and poor, fl and white.
		Stevens provided for the support of some of the families, who were unemployed by this action, for as long as three years.
		It was Stevens who was the prime instigator of the impeachment proceedings against Johnson.
	www.civilwarhome.com /stevensbio.htm (400 words)

	Mr. Lincoln's White House: Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868)
		"Thaddeus Stevens was the despotic ruler of the House.
		Stevens confronted President Lincoln on the Administrations errors in 1861 in declaring a blockade of Southern ports, which Stevens felt granted the Confederacy tacit recognition under international law.
		Stevens very shrewdly: 'Stevens, this is a pretty big hog we are trying to catch, and to hold when we do catch him.
	www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org /inside.asp?ID=161&subjectID=2 (1102 words)

	Lancaster City: Thaddeus Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stevens was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature from 1833-1841.
		Stevens felt that the South should be treated harshly during Reconstruction.
		Stevens’s views on public education led to the building of the Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology in his honor.
	www.co.lancaster.pa.us /lancastercity/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=517030&tx=1 (228 words)

	Exploring U.S. History \| who owns this land?
		Thaddeus Stevens represented Lancaster, PA. Noted for his biting, sarcastic wit, Stevens was widely disliked but also extremely powerful.
		Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania, Delivered in the House of Representatives, March 19, 1867, on the Bill (H.R. No. 20) Relative to Damages to Loyal Men, and for Other Purposes.
		SPEAKER: I am about to discuss the question of the punishment of belligerent traitors by enforcing the confiscation of their property to a certain extent, both as a punishment for their crimes and to pay the loyal men who have been robbed by the rebels, and to increase the pensions of our wounded soldiers.
	chnm.gmu.edu /exploring/19thcentury/whoownsthisland/pop_stevens.html (1217 words)

	Thaddeus Stevens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thaddeus Stevens, son of a poor Vermont shoemaker, was one of Pennsylvania's strangest and most baffling personalities.
		But a larger world than a small Vermont village beckoned, and in 1815 Stevens moved to southern Pennsylvania where he became an instructor in the York County Academy, employing his leisure time in studying law under the tutelage of David Casset, York's leading lawyer.
		Prevented from taking his examination in less than a year by local bar rules, he skirted this obstacle by crossing the Mason-Dixon Line into Bel Air, Maryland, where, after listing the legal works he had read and going through other formalities, he was admitted to practice.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/stevens/page1.asp?secid=31 (342 words)

	African American Registry: Thaddeus Stevens, a fighter against slavery!
		Thaddeus Stevens* was born on this date in 1792.
		In 1868, as leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress, Stevens proposed for the impeachment of Johnson.
		Stevens’ health declined during his dispute and he requested that he should be buried among African Americans in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
	www.aaregistry.com /detail.php3?id=1823 (206 words)

	MEDIA ADVISORY: Sturla and Boyd to present Thaddeus Stevens Day proclamation Monday at Shreiner-Concord Cemetery -- ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thaddeus Stevens, who was born on April 4, 1792.
		Stevens was a member of the state House from 1833 to 1842.
		The commemoration event is sponsored by Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology, the Shreiner-Concord Cemetery Board and the Historic Preservation Trust.
	www.pahouse.com /pr/Sturla/096033105.htm (171 words)

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