Lyman Trumbull was a lawyer, judge, and United States Senator from Illinois and the co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
16 Facts About Lyman Trumbull
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Lyman Trumbull served as the Illinois Secretary of State from 1841 to 1843 and as a justice of the Illinois Supreme Court from 1848 to 1853.
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Lyman Trumbull was elected to the Senate in 1855 and became a member of the Republican Party.
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Lyman Trumbull was a candidate for the presidential nomination at the 1872 Liberal Republican convention but the fledgling party nominated Horace Greeley instead.
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Lyman Trumbull left the Senate in 1873 to establish a legal practice in Chicago.
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Lyman Trumbull was born in Colchester, Connecticut, the grandson of the historian Benjamin Lyman Trumbull.
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Lyman Trumbull studied as a legal apprentice, and was admitted to the bar in Georgia.
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Lyman Trumbull practiced law in Greenville, Georgia until 1837, when he moved west to Alton, Illinois.
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Lyman Trumbull's house in Alton, the Lyman Trumbull House, is a National Historic Monument.
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Lyman Trumbull was appointed as Illinois Secretary of State, serving from 1841 to 1843.
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Lyman Trumbull served for nearly two decades, from 1855 through 1873.
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On December 16,1861, Lyman Trumbull asked the Senate to consider his resolution:.
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Lyman Trumbull worked in private practice except for a brief period when he ran an unsuccessful campaign for governor in 1880.
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In January 1883, Lyman Trumbull was given a seat of honor at the dedication of the Pullman Arcade Theatre in George Pullman's company town.
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Lyman Trumbull was part of the three-member legal team, which included Clarence Darrow, when their habeas corpus case In re Debs was heard by the US Supreme Court in 1895.
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Lyman Trumbull died at his home in Chicago on June 25,1896, and was buried at Oak Woods Cemetery.