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.

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 ...

For example, in a Dec. 10, 1860, letter to Sen. Lyman Trumbull, ... Senate passage of the would-be 13th Amendment came two days after the House approved it 133-65, ...

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 ...

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.

We know what the framers of the amendment meant by the latter because they told us. Sen. Lyman Trumbull of Illinois, a principal figure in drafting the amendment, defined “subject to the ...

Many of you know that Alton for years was the home of U.S. Senator Lyman Trumbull, who was a close ally of Lincoln and the author of the Thirteenth Amendment that finally abolished slavery. I bet ...

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, ...

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.