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Thaddeus Stevens
Thaddeus Stevens
  • Born April 4, 1792 - Danville, Caledonia Co., VT
  • Deceased August 11, 1868 - Washington, D.C.,aged 76 years old
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    STEVENS, Thaddeus, A Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Danville, Caledonia County, Vt. April 4, 1792; attended Peacham Academy and the University of Vermont at Burlington; was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1814; moved to Pennsylvania in 1815; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1816 and commenced practice in Gettysburg; member of the State house of representatives 1833-1835, 1837, and 1841; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1838; appointed as a canal commissioner in 1838; moved to Lancaster, Pa., in 1842; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849-March 3, 1853); elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1859, until his death; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Congresses), Committee on Appropriations (Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1868 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson, President of the United States; died in Washington, D.C., on August 11, 1868; lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, August 13-14, 1868; interment in Shreiner's Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.

    --- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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    |2_Joshua Stevens 1768-1814
    |--1_Thaddeus Stevens 1792-1868
    |                                                                           _____|24_Ezekiel Morrill 1675-1732
    |                                                  _____|12_Abner Morrill 1709-1766
    |                                                 /                         ¯¯¯¯¯|25_Abigail Wadleigh 1684-1728
    |                       _____|6_Abner Morrill 1741-1829
    |                      /                        \                          _____|26_Philip Greeley 1681-1769
    |                     /                          ¯¯¯¯¯|13_Lydia Greeley 1710-1798
    |                    /                                                     ¯¯¯¯¯|27_Abigail Severance 1683-1744
    |3_Sarah Sally Morrill 1767-1854
                          \                                                     _____|28_Ephraim Hoyt 1671-1741
                           \                           _____|14_Benjamin Hoyt 1702-1760
                            \                         /                         ¯¯¯¯¯|29_Hannah Godfrey 1670-1736
                             ¯¯¯¯¯|7_Sarah Hoyt 1751-1808
                                                      \
                                                       ¯¯¯¯¯|15_Joanna Battin 1710