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Senate Years of Service: 1855-1857; 1857-1873 Party: Democrat; Republican
TRUMBULL, Lyman, a Senator from Illinois; born in Colchester, Conn., October 12,
1813; attended Bacon Academy; taught school in Connecticut 1829-1833; studied
law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Greenville, Ga.; moved to
Belleville, Ill., 1837; member, State house of representatives 1840-1841;
secretary of State of Illinois in 1841 and 1843; justice of the supreme court
of Illinois 1848-1853; elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress in 1854, but
before the beginning of the Congress was elected to the United States Senate;
reelected in 1861 and again in 1867, and served from March 4, 1855, to March 3,
1873; was at various times a Democrat, then Republican, then Liberal
Republican, then Democrat; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Thirty-seventh
through Forty-second Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Chicago, Ill.;
unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Illinois in 1880; died in Chicago, Ill.,
June 25, 1896; interment in Oakwoods Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; DiNunzio, Mario. Secession
Winter: Lyman Trumbull and the Crisis in Congress.
Capitol Studies 1 (Fall 1972): 29-39; Krug, Mark M.
Lyman Trumbull, Conservative Radical. New York: A.S. Barnes,
1965.
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