Illinois Senator Lyman Trumbull is not well-known today, ... He wrote the Thirteenth Amendment, the first Freedmen's Bureau Bill, and the Civil Rights Act.

Not portrayed at all in the movie — or even mentioned — was the man who actually wrote the 13th Amendment: Illinois’s own Senator Lyman Trumbull. Unlike Lincoln, his longtime ally and rival ...

LYMAN TRUMBULL. Lyman Trumbull was a United States Senator from Illinois during the American Civil War, and co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Immediately after the U.S. House passed the Thirteenth Amendment on January 31, 1865, Senator Lyman Trumbull telegraphed Governor Richard J. Oglesby of Illinois urging him to ensure that President ...

Lyman Trumbull was born in Colchester on Oct. 12, 1813 to Benjamin and Elizabeth Mather Trumbull. The newborn was the grandson of historian Benjamin Trumbull. The new child would have two brothers, ...

Lyman Trumbull’s role as a Second Amendment champion was somewhat accidental, ... He wrote the Thirteenth Amendment, the first Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, and the Civil Rights Act.