Charles Sumner
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Charles Sumner was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a lead
Portrait c. 1865
Sumner's birthplace at 58 Irving Street, Beacon Hill, Boston
Lithograph of Preston Brooks' 1856 attack on Sumner
1860 steel-engraved portrait of Sumner
The proposed annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during the later Reconstruction era, with precedents under earlier administrations, but re-initiated by United States President Ulysses
Charles Sumner
…chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1861 to 1871, until he lost the position following a dispute with President Ulysses S. Grant over the attempted annexation of Santo Domingo. After breaking with Grant, he joined the Liberal Republican Party, spending his final two years in the Senate alienated from his party. Sumner began…
Santo Domingo City Watercolor by James E. Taylor 1871
President Ulysses S. Grant
A Dominican tobacco plantation
Senator Charles Sumner