Charles Sumner

(1811-1874)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 NRA: Sumner, Charles (1811-1874) American Statesman LBT ID: ChSumne1874a VIAF ID: 22940901 LOC ID: n81057079	B/BAP: 1811-01-06 DIED: 1874-03-11
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American statesman; he was educated at Harvard and spent two years traveling in Europe before making his reputation as an abolitionist senator from Massachusetts.
REFERENCES TO Charles Sumner: Edward Everett to Samuel Rogers, 14 September 1846 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Edward Everett to Samuel Rogers, 30 June 1847 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 1 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter IV. 1838-41. Found 4: ¶ 4 ¶ 12 ¶ 13 ¶ 24 Chapter V. 1842-44. Found 1: ¶ 13 Chapter VI. 1845-46. Found 1: ¶ 26 Chapter VII. 1847-50. Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 1: ¶ 85