“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever virtues and vices may be affixed to the American character, it is a quality of our nation to go to the very extreme of every subject.”

About Benjamin F. Wade

Politician • American

Benjamin Franklin Wade was a leading American politician and attorney who served as a U.S. Senator from Ohio from 1851 to 1869. He was a key figure in the founding of the Republican Party and became one of its most...