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Charles Sumner

(Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874)

Daguerreotype photograph of Charles Sumner. Dimensions: 15.5 × 12 cm (6.1 × 4.7 in) (in case). Original description by Boston Public Library: BPLDC no.: 07_05_000006
Call no.: Cab.G.3.116
Title:  Charles Sumner
Creator:  
Date:  1855 (approximate)
Publisher: 
Extent:  1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype ; in case 15.5 x 12 cm.
Genre:  Daguerreotypes; Portraits
Notes:  Apparently taken between age 44 and 49.; Reference: Pfister, Facing the Light, no. 108.
Subjects:  
Sumner, Charles,1811-1874

BPL Department:  Rare Books Department
Image from Wikimedia Commons

Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811 – March 11, 1874) was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading American advocate for the abolition of slavery. He chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1861 to 1871, until he lost the position following a dispute with President Ulysses S. Grant over the attempted annexation of Santo Domingo. After breaking with Grant, he joined the Liberal Republican Party, spending his final two years in the Senate alienated from his party. Sumner had a controversial and divisive legacy for many years after his death, but in recent decades, his historical reputation has improved in recognition of his early support for racial equality. (From Wikipedia)

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