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.

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.

Sen. Lyman Trumbull was clear: ... As such, the Second Amendment is an incident of slavery that the Thirteenth Amendment gives Congress the power to regulate.

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.