George Washington Julian Quotes
I have never seen such lobbying before as we have had in the last few weeks and such crookedness and complicity among members [of congress].
George Washington Julian, 1817-1899, U. S. Congressman (Free Soiler & Republican, IN), Vice Presidential nominee, Free Soil Party (with John P. Hale, Diary, August 1852
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Bribing Congressmen was quite common. In those days, money to Congressmen and Senators was not even disguised as campaign contributions. The letters were the short terms for the different agents.
implicit in the weak ethics rules of the U.S. House of Representatives
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She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
George Washington Julian was a politician, lawyer, and writer from Indiana who served in the United States House of Representatives during the 19th century. A leading opponent of slavery, Julian was the Free Soil Party's candidate for vice president in the 1852 election and was a prominent Radical Republican during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era.
