“I should be false to myself, false to my constituents, false to my country, and false to my God, if, when I see a violated Constitution and a ruined country, I did not cry aloud and enter my protest.”

About Lyman Trumbull

Politician • American

Lyman Trumbull was an influential American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Illinois from 1855 to 1873. He was a key figure during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods, initially as a Democrat before...