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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 1814; 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); chairman 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; interment in Shreiners Cemetery, Lancaster, Pa.
BibliographyTrefousse, Hans Louis. Thaddeus Stevens:
Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
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