TRUMBULL, LYMAN (1813-1896)

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TRUMBULL, LYMAN (1813-1896) , American jurist and political leader, was born at Colchester, Connecticut, on the 12th of October 1813, and was a grandson of Benjamin

Trumbull

(1735-1820), a Congregational preacher and the author of a useful Complete History of Connecticut (2 vols., 1818). He taught in Georgia, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1837. Removing to Belleville, Illinois, in the same year, he was elected to the state

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

of Representatives as a Democrat in 184o, and in 1841-1843 was secretary of state of Illinois. In 1848-18J3 he was a justice of the state Supreme Court, and in 1855-1873 was a member of the United States Senate. Elected as an

Anti

ANTI, or CAMPA

-Nebraska Democrat, he naturally joined the Re-publicans, and when this party secured

control

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

in the Senate he was made chairman of the important judiciary committee, from which he reported the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States abolishing slavery. Through-out the Civil War he was a trusted counsellor of the president. In the

impeachment

IMPEACHMENT (O. Fr. empeahement, empeschement, from em pecher or empescher, to hinder,
Late
- LATE
Lat. impedicare, to entangle, pedica, fetter, pes, foot)

trial of President Andrew Johnson he was one of the seven Republicans who voted to acquit, and he after-wards returned to the Democratic party. After 1873 he practised law in Chicago, was the Democratic candidate for

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of Illinois in 188o, became a Populist in 1894, and defended the railway strikers in Chicago in the same year. He died in Chicago on the 25th of June 1896.

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