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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Conduct of the War, (search)
f the War, Committee on Tue. On Dec. 9, 1861, the Senate, by a vote of 33 yeas to 3 nays, adopted a resolution providing for the appointing of a joint committee of three from the Senate and four from the House to inquire into the conduct of the war, the committee to have power to send for persons and papers, and to sit through that session of Congress. The House concurred in the resolution on the following day, and on the 17th and 19th the committee was appointed, consisting of Senators Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio; Zachariah Chandler, of Michigan, and Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee; and Representatives Daniel W. Gooch, of Massachusetts; John Covode, of Pennsylvania; George W. Julian, of Indiana, and Moses F. Odell, of New York. On Dec. 20 the committee held its first session and chose Senator Wade as chairman. This committee became an important factor in the early movements of the National army and navy. During its existence there were frequently complaints from officers in the f
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Ohio, (search)
miah Morrow13th to 16th1813 to 1819 Benjamin Ruggles 14th to 23d1815 to 1833 William A. Trimble16th to17th1819 to 1821 Ethan Allen Brown17th to 19th1822 to 1825 William Henry Harrison.19th to 20th1825 to 1828 Jacob Burnett20th to 23d1828 to 1831 Thomas Ewing22d to 25th1831 to 1837 Thomas Morris23d to 26th1833 to 1839 William Allen25th to 31st1837 to 1849 Benjamin Tappan26th to 29th1839 to 1845 Thomas Corwin29th to 31st1845 to 1850 Thomas Ewing31st1850 Salmon P. Chase31st to 34th1849 to 1855 Benjamin F. Wade32d to 41st1851 to 1869 George E. Pugh34th to 37th1855 to 1861 Salmon P. Chase37th1861 John Sherman37th to 45th1861 to 1877 Allen G. Thurman41st to 47th1869 to1880 Stanley Matthews45th to 46th1877 to 1879 George H. Pendleton46th to 49th1879 to 1885 James A. Garfield47th1880 John Sherman47th to 54th1881 to 1897 Henry B. Payne49th to 52d1885 to 1891 Calvin C. Brice52d to 55th1891 to 1896 Joseph B. Foraker55th to ——1897 to —— Marcus A. Hanna55th to —
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
session (33 yeas to 3 nays)......Dec. 9, 1861 House concurs......Dec. 10, 1861 This committee consists of Senators Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio; Zachariah Chandler, of Michigan; and Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, Dec. 17; and Congressmen Daniel W. President on first ballot; on the fifth ballot for Vice-President, Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana, receives 541 votes; Benjamin F. Wade, of Ohio, 38; Reuben E. Fenton, of New York, 69......May 21, 1868 Court of impeachment acquits the President on anck appointed minister to Great Britain......Dec. 22, 1870 Resolution authorizing a San Domingo commission approved (B. F. Wade, of Ohio; A. D. White, president of Cornell University, and S. G. Howe, of Massachusetts, named)......Jan. 12, 1871 resident......Feb. 22, 1878 Bland silver bill, as amended, passed over the President's veto......Feb. 28, 1878 Benjamin F. Wade, born 1800, dies at Jefferson, O.......March 2, 1878 American register to be issued to, and naval officers detail
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wade, Benjamin Franklin -1878 (search)
Wade, Benjamin Franklin -1878 Statesman; born near Springfield, Mass., Oct. 27, 1800; removed to Ashtabula, O., in 1821; admitted to the bar in 1827; elected prosecuting attorney in 1835; State Senator in 1837; and was United States Senator in Benjamin Franklin Wade. 1851-69. He was a conspicuous antislavery leader, opposed the Kansas-Nebraska bill; favored the homestead bill and the confiscation of property in slaves. He was acting Vice-President of the United States under President Jshtabula, O., in 1821; admitted to the bar in 1827; elected prosecuting attorney in 1835; State Senator in 1837; and was United States Senator in Benjamin Franklin Wade. 1851-69. He was a conspicuous antislavery leader, opposed the Kansas-Nebraska bill; favored the homestead bill and the confiscation of property in slaves. He was acting Vice-President of the United States under President Johnson; and one of the commissioners to Santo Domingo in 1871. He died in Jefferson, O., March 2, 1878.
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 23: period of reconstruction (search)
ing again for a century to come. Andrew Johnson may be deposed and disfranchised, and Benjamin Franklin Wade installed in his place; but a people who have seen the life-blood of a quarter of a millhe forms of law, by the men who placed him there, but whose confidence he has betrayed. And if Mr. Wade should, in co-operation with the Senate, remove every Federal office-holder, from his cabinet d of Mr. Johnson as not justified by the law and the facts of the case, or the administration of Mr. Wade as inopportune or proscriptive, they will redress the wrongs of the former and punish the offenult of the impeachment trial, it was considered possible that the president of the Senate, then Mr. Wade, of Ohio, might succeed Andrew Johnson, and in this event that the cabinet would necessarily beHe strongly favored his election to the Senate, and recommended him for a place in the cabinet of Wade, in case that senator should be called upon to succeed President Johnson. But this is not all. W
John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Index (search)
address at, 49, 60. Upton, General, 320, 325. Usher, Secretary, 354. V. Valley of Virginia, 342, 347, 348. Van Cleve, General, 259, 262. Vanderbilt, 458. Venezuela, 471. Vicksburg, 4, 191, 192, 199, 204, 207-209, 212-214, 216, 221, 223, 225-228, 233-236, 238, 239, 248, 252, 255, 256, 267, 276,282, 283, 301, 309, 516, 329, 338, 339. Vienna, 84, 86. Virgil, 56. Virginia, campaign in, 316, 349. Virginia, merchants of, 112, 113. Von Moltke, 314. W. Wade, president of the Senate, 389, 390, 397, 401. Wadsworth, General, 249. Wakefield, scholar, 20. Walden's Ridge, 277, 279. Waldron, Congressman, 146. Walewski, 66. Walker, filibuster, 126. Walker, Professor, 25, 26. Wallace, General, Lew, 336. Ward, General, Hobart, 319, 329. Warren, Fitz-Henry, Forward to Richmond, 166, 189. Warren, General, 319, 320, 323, 324, 328, 332, 337. Washburne, E. B., 311-313, 399, 407-411. Washburne's bill to make Grant general, 373, 409. Washing