Charles Sumner
Charles Sumner ( born January 6, 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts, † March 11, 1874 in Washington, DC) was an American politician. He was a senator from Massachusetts.
Life
Sumner attended Harvard University and has taught since 1836 at Harvard Law School, the law of the United States and international law. From 1837 to 1840 Sumner toured England, Germany, France and Italy. After he returned to Boston, he took his legal practice again and was from 1844 to 1846, together with James Charles Perkins a copy of " Vesey's Reports" in 20 volumes out.
In 1845 Sumner joined the Whig party, but changed to 1848 Free Soil Party and in 1851 elected to the U.S. Senate. Here he distinguished himself as an excellent speaker and a consistent opponent of slavery. In his speech on the conditions of slaves in Kansas, he reached in May 1856, the conditions in the southern United States so sharp that he was attacked by the representatives of South Carolina, Preston Brooks, after the meeting and seriously injured. Then Sumner went to Europe and came back in 1859 in the Senate. He then became chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and played a prominent role in the federal legislative process during the American Civil War.
In his book The Case of the United States Sumner participated in the Alabama question an extremely hostile attitude towards Britain. Although he initially had the choice of Ulysses S. Grant support in 1868, he soon became one of his fiercest opponents. He then joined for Horace Greeley as a presidential candidate and sat in the Senate nor the civic equality of African Americans by.
Charles Sumner died on March 11, 1874 in Washington. He was laid out in the rotunda of the United States Capitol, and then interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Posthumous honors
After Sumner are named:
- Sumner Tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts
- Charles Sumner House, Sumner's house in Boston;
- Charles Sumner Elementary School in Roslindale, Massachusetts;
- Charles Sumner Charles Sumner School and Museum in Washington, DC;
- Sumner Elementary School in Syracuse, New York, today Peace - Sumner Head Start Preschool;
- Sumner Elementary School in Topeka, Kansas, the school is closed today. She played a key role in the historic court decision Brown v. Board of Education. It now belongs to the National Register of Historic Places;
- Sumner Academy of Arts & Science in Kansas City, Kansas;
- Sumner County, Kansas;
- Sumner, Iowa;
- Sumner, Nebraska;
- Sumner, Washington;
- Sumner, Oregon;
- . Charles Sumner Av, Distrito Nacional, Dominican Republic, El Caribe;
- SS Charles Sumner, a cargo ship that was used in World War II