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
Henry Wilson
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Henry Wilson was the 18th vice president of the United States, serving from 1873 until his death in 1875, and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873. Before and during the American Civil War,
Wilson in 1873
Henry Wilson's shoeshop in Natick, Massachusetts
Henry Wilson's Natick home.
Abolitionist and Free Soil Party leaders Charles Sumner, Henry Ward Beecher, Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd Garrison, Gerrit Smith, Horace Greeley, and Henry Wilson.