2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/28/2022
A pair of CDVs to include, Senator Charles Sumner by Warren, Boston, slightly light. ... plus, Senator Henry Wilson as printed on the front mount. Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was an American statesman and United States Senator from Massachusetts. As an academic lawyer and a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in the state and a leader of the Radical Republicans in the U.S. Senate during the American Civil War. Henry Wilson (1812-1875) was the 18th vice president of the United States from 1873 until his death in 1875 and a senator from Massachusetts from 1855 to 1873. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading Republican, and a strong opponent of slavery. Wilson devoted his energies to the destruction of the "Slave Power" - the faction of slave owners and their political allies which anti-slavery Americans saw as dominating the country.
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