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About Benjamin Wade
Benjamin Franklin "Bluff" Wade was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States Senator for Ohio from 1851 to 1869. He is known for his leading role among the Radical Republicans. Had the 1868 impeachment of U.S. President Andrew Johnson led to a conviction in the Senate, as president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, Wade would have become acting president for the remaining nine months of Johnson's term.
Everything about Benjamin Wade →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, judge
- Position held
- President pro tempore of the United States Senate, member of the State Senate of Ohio, United States senator, United States senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 27, 1800
- Died
- March 2, 1878