Selasa, 10 April 2018

A bulldog whose bite matched his bark

Born in the abolitionist hotbed of Massachusetts and raised on the plains of the Midwest, Benjamin Franklin Wade farmed, drove cattle and even labored on the Erie Canal before passing the Ohio bar and jumping head-first into hot-stove American politics. For a man born with a debilitating stammering problem, which he eventually overcame, he had …

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