Lyman Trumbull
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Most Influential Person Across History
American politician
Why Is Lyman Trumbull Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Lyman Trumbull was an American lawyer, judge, and politician who represented the state of Illinois in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1873. As an ardent abolitionist who successfully argued the case banning slavery in Illinois, Trumbull served as a key political ally to Abraham Lincoln, and a leading legislator during the Civil War and Reconstruction, authoring the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which abolished chattel slavery, and Civil Rights Act of 1866.
