Henry Wilson was an American politician who was the 18th vice president of the United States from 1873 until his death in 1875 and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873. Before and during the American Civil War,he was a leading Republican,and a strong opponent of slavery. Wilson devoted his energies to the destruction of "Slave Power",the faction of slave owners and their political allies which anti-slavery Americans saw as dominating the country.
Edwin Denison Morgan was the 21st governor of New York from 1859 to 1862 and served in the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869. He was the first and longest-serving chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was also a Union Army general during the American Civil War. Morgan was known for his progressive views on education,prison reform,and women's suffrage. He helped to found the Republican Party in New York and was a strong supporter of the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln.
Benjamin Gratz Brown was an American politician. He was a U.S. Senator,the 20th Governor of Missouri,and the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of 1872.
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff was an American Democratic Party politician from the state of Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives and Senate and was the 80th Governor of Connecticut and Secretary of Health,Education,and Welfare in President John F. Kennedy's cabinet. He was Connecticut's first and to date only Jewish governor.
Jacob Merritt Howard was an American attorney and politician. He was most notable for his service as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Michigan,and his political career spanned the American Civil War.
Daniel Stevens Dickinson was an American politician and lawyer,most notable as a United States senator from 1844 to 1851.
Preston King was an American attorney and politician who represented New York in the United States Senate from 1857 to 1863. King also represented the North Country in the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms and represented his native St. Lawrence County in the New York State Assembly for four terms. King entered politics as an ally of Martin Van Buren and was a lifelong opponent of slavery as a member of the Democratic,Free Soil,and Republican parties.
James Donald Cameron was an American banker,businessman and Republican politician who served as Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Ulysses S. Grant from 1876 to 1877 and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1877 to 1897. Cameron succeeded his father,Simon Cameron,in both offices and as boss of the powerful Pennsylvania Republican political machine.
Henry Smith Lane was a United States representative,Senator,and the 13th Governor of Indiana;he was by design the shortest-serving governor of Indiana,having made plans to resign the office should his party take control of the Indiana General Assembly and elect him to the United States Senate. He held that office for only two days,and was known for his opposition to slavery. A Whig until the party collapsed,he supported compromise with the south. He became an early leader in the Republican Party starting in 1856 serving as the president of the first party convention,delivering its keynote address,and was influential in the nomination of Abraham Lincoln. With the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,he became a full-fledged abolitionist,and in the Senate he was a pro-Union advocate and a strong supporter of the war effort to end the rebellion.
Edgar Cowan was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Greensburg,Pennsylvania. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate during the American Civil War.
William Alfred Buckingham was a Republican who served as the governor of Connecticut during the Civil War and later as a United States senator.
George Anson Starkweather was an American attorney and politician. He was most notable for his service as a United States representative from New York,serving one term from 1847 to 1849.
Augustus Brandegee was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut.
David Austin Starkweather was an American lawyer and politician who was a U.S. Representative from Ohio and a U.S. diplomat. He served two non-consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives in the mid-19th century and was United States Ambassador to Chile during the presidency of Franklin Pierce.
John Henry Ketcham was a United States representative from New York for over 33 years. He also served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Edward Hooker Gillette was a nineteenth-century populist politician and editor from Iowa. He was elected on the Greenback Party ticket to represent Iowa's 7th congressional district for only one term in Congress,but remained active in populist political movements. Gillette was the son of Senator Francis Gillette and Elisabeth Daggett Hooker,a descendant of Rev. Thomas Hooker,and the brother of actor/playwright William Gillette.
John Turner Wait was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.
Abraham Lincoln Brick was an American attorney and politician. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1899 until his death in 1908.
David Davis was an American politician and jurist who was a U.S. senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention,engineering Lincoln's successful nomination for president by that party.
Jesse Kilgore Dubois was an American politician from Illinois. The son of a prominent early Illinois citizen,Dubois was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives while he was attending Indiana College. Nicknamed Uncle Jesse,he served four two-year terms there. An early Republican,Dubois was named the party's first candidate for Auditor of Public Accounts. He was elected in 1856 and served two four-year terms. He was the father of Senator Fred Dubois.
