George Washington Julian, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George Washington Julian

American politician and lawyer

Date of Birth: 05-May-1817

Place of Birth: Centerville, Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 07-Jul-1899

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About George Washington Julian

  • George Washington Julian (May 5, 1817 – July 7, 1899) was a politician, lawyer, and writer from Indiana who served in the United States House of Representatives during the 19th century.
  • A leading opponent of slavery, Julian was the Free Soil Party's candidate for vice president in the 1852 election and was a prominent Radical Republican during the American Civil War and the Reconstruction era. Born in Wayne County, Indiana, he established a legal practice in Centerville, Indiana.
  • He won election to the Indiana House of Representatives as a member of the Whig Party.
  • He helped found the anti-slavery Free Soil Party and won election to the United States House of Representatives, but was defeated in his attempt to secure a second term.
  • During his time in Congress, he became a staunch supporter of land reform policies such as the Homestead Acts.
  • After leaving Congress, Julian served as the Free Soil Party's vice presidential nominee in 1852, and the ticket won 4.9% of the popular vote. After the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Act, Julian became a leader of Indiana's nascent Republican Party, and he won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1860.
  • He helped secure passage of the 1862 Homestead Act and called for the abolition of slavery.
  • He criticized many of President Abraham Lincoln's wartime policies and favored the Wade–Davis Bill over Lincoln's more lenient Reconstruction proposals.
  • He voted in favor of the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States and famously feuded with Solomon Meredith, a fellow Hoosier and commander of the Union Army's Iron Brigade during his 1865 re-election campaign. After the war, he emerged as a prominent critic of President Andrew Johnson, calling for Johnson's impeachment.
  • Julian introduced a women's suffrage constitutional amendment in 1868.
  • Julian lost his bid for re-nomination in 1870, and eventually resumed his legal practice in Indianapolis.
  • He opposed the administration of President Ulysses S.
  • Grant and became a leader of the Liberal Republicans.
  • After Grant defeated Liberal Republican nominee Horace Greeley in the 1872 presidential election, Julian became a member of the Democratic Party.
  • In 1885, President Grover Cleveland appointed him surveyor general of the New Mexico Territory.
  • Julian was the son-in-law of Ohio politician Joshua Reed Giddings and the father of Grace Julian Clarke, a women's suffrage advocate.

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