After becoming a partner in an ironworks, he was elected to his states house of representatives in 1833 as a member of the Anti-Masonic party.
After becoming a partner in an ironworks, he was elected to his states house of representatives in 1833 as a member of the Anti-Masonic party. Fifteen years later, he was elected to Congress as a Whig, but he changed parties again, and in 1858 was elected as a Republican. FTP, identify this statesman from Pennsylvania, who served as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee during the Civil War, and who, as the postwar chairman of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, put the South under military reconstruction.
After becoming a partner in an ironworks, he was elected to his states house of representatives in 1833 as a member of the Anti-Masonic party.
Thaddeus {Stevens}