Historical Photograph: [Benjamin F. Wade, Senator from Ohio, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-length portrait]

Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan & the Wade Davis Bill He Vetoed

Historical Photograph: [Benjamin F. Wade, Senator from Ohio, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-length portrait]

1859

Historical Photograph

The Library of Congress features an 1859 black and white, half-length historical photograph, taken by Julian Vannerson, that depicts Senator Benjamin Franklin Wade (W-OH)--a white, United States Congressman who was one of the authors and endorsors of the Wade-Davis Bill--dressed in a suit and facing to the right of the frame.

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