Sumner, Charles 1811-74 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Biographical Information Page 1 of 2 Biographical Directory of the SUMNER, Charles, 1811-1874 United States Congress Senate Years of Service: 1851-1855; 1855-1857; 1857-1873; 1873-1874 Party: Free Soil; Opposition; Republican; Liberal Republican SUMNER, Charles, a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., January 6, 1811; attended the Boston Latin School; graduated from Harvard 1774 Present University in 1830 and from the Harvard Law School in 1833; was admitted to the bar the following year Biography and commenced the practice of law in Boston, Mass.; lectured at the Harvard Research Collections Law School 1836-1837; traveled Bibliography extensively in Europe 1837-1840; New Search declined the Whig nomination in 1846 for election to the Thirtieth Congress; House History Page one of the founders of the Free Soil Party in 1848; unsuccessful Senate History Page candidate for election in 1848 on the Free Soil ticket to the Thirty- first Congress; elected to the United States Senate in 1851 as a Free Copyright Information Soiler; reelected as a Republican in 1857, 1863, and 1869 and served from April 24, 1851, until his death in 1874; in response to his "Crime Against Kansas" speech, was assaulted by Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina on May 22, 1856, while in his seat in the Senate, and was absent on account of injuries received until December 1859; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Thirty- seventh through Forty-first Congresses), Committee on Privileges and Elections (Forty-second Congress); removed as chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in 1871 as a result of differences with President Ulysses S. Grant over policy in Santo Domingo; died in Washington, D.C., March 11, 1874; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass. Bibliography Dictionary of American Biography; Donald, David Herbert. Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War. New York: Knopf, 1960; Donald, David Herbert. Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Guide to Research Papers Page 1 of 7 Biographical Directory of the SUMNER, Charles, 1811-1874 United States Congress Guide to Research Collections American Antiquarian Society Worcester, MA Papers: 1834-1874. 1 folder; 44 items. Papers and political correspondence and Harvard Law School diploma. 1774 K Present American Philosophical Society Biography Philadelphia, PA Papers: In J. Peter Lesley papers, Research Collections 1826-1898, available on microfilm; Bibliography William Parker Foulke papers, ca. 1840-1865; and Charles Babbage New Search selected correspondence, 1827-1871, on 1 microfilm reel of originals at British Museum. House History Page Senate History Page Boston Public Library Boston, MA Papers: Ca. 200 items. Also photographs. Boston University Boston, MA Papers: 1851-1873. 24 letters. Also photographs. Brown University Providence, RI Papers: 1840-1869. 12 letters. California Historical Society Library San Francisco, CA Papers: Correspondence in Jonas Winchester papers, 1829-1887. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Guide to Research Papers Page 2 of 7 Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library New York, NY Papers: Correspondence in Charles Stewart Daveis papers, 1815- 1864; Sydney Howard Gay papers, ca. 1770-1900; Josephine W. Griffing papers, 1862-1872; and Jay family papers, 1828-1943. Duke University Special Collections Library Durham, NC Papers: 1835-1874. 147 items. Letters from Sumner to various correspondents relating to the assault on him by Preston Brooks, Kansas-Nebraska Act, opposition to slavery, support of civil rights for blacks after the Civil War, opposition to annexation of the Dominican Republic in 1869, Horace Greeley and the election of 1872, Emperor Maximillian of Mexico, prison and naturalization reform, and other topics reflecting his legal, intellectual, political, and international interests. Finding aid. Harvard University Houghton Library Cambridge, MA Papers: 1829-1895. 200 boxes. Chiefly correspondence including letters from antislavery leaders and other reformers, letters from constituents, and letters describing conditions in the South during Reconstruction. Also papers connected with the resolution of condemnation against Charles Sumner, 1872-1873. Available on microfilm. Finding aid. Papers: 1833-1873. Ca. 150 items. Includes 52 letters (1839-1873) from Sumner to George Washington Green. Other correspondents include Samuel Hooper, Samuel Gridley Howe, and Mrs. and Mrs. Thomas Lamb, Washington, DC. Finding aid. Additional Papers: Correspondence in Pickard-Whittier papers, 1815-1914; Edward Lillie Pierce papers, 1852-1888; Evert Jansen Wendell collection, 1762-1915; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow papers, 1811-1928; 32 letters in Wendell Phillips papers, 1555-1882 (bulk 1833-1881); manuscripts in Palfrey family North American review papers, 1831-1843; 15 letters in Robert Carter papers, 1851- 1898 (bulk 1851-1862); and numerous letters in George Nichols http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Guide to Research Papers Page 3 of 7 papers, 1788-1882. Henry E. Huntington Library San Marino, CA Papers: 1835-1874. 204 items. Includes 120 letters (1857-1873) to Elizabeth Georgiana Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, in an attempt to win her husband, a privy councillor, to the side of the Union. Subjects covered in these and other letters include: relations with great Britain and British opinion of the Civil War; national politics in the years preceding, during, and following the war; Sumner's opinion of Andrew Johnson; travels in England, France, and Italy; and law and literature. Also ca. 25 letters in various collections. Historical Society of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Papers; Correspondence in Richard Peters correspondence, 1820-1847 (bulk 1826-1847); Galesburg, IL Papers: 2 letters (no date) in Bookfellow Foundation autograph collection, 1705-1940. Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, DC Papers: 1841-1874. 1 container. Correspondence and printed matter chiefly concerning government publications, appointments to office, the Republican party, his law practice, and his political speeches and writings. Additional Papers: Correspondence in Nathaniel Prentice Banks papers, 1829-1911; Andrew and John White Stevenson family papers, 1756-1882; Whiting Griswold papers, 1843-1874; and James Redpath papers, 1861. Maryland Historical Society Baltimore, MD Papers: Correspondence in the David Warden papers, available on microfilm. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Guide to Research Papers Page 4 of 7 Massachusetts Historical Society Boston, MA Papers: 1779-1873. 3 linear feet. Congressional, personal, and family correspondence and papers, speeches and writings. Additional Papers: Correspondence in William Foster papers, 1734- 1879; Appleton family papers, 1539-1940; Dana family papers, 1654-1933; William Schouler papers, 1840-1872; photographs; and portraits. New England Genealogical Society Boston, MA Papers: Correspondence in William Foster papers, 1734-1879. New Jersey Historical Society Newark, NJ Papers: Correspondence in William Nelson papers, 1690-1875. New-York Historical Society New York, NY Papers: Correspondence in King family papers, 1754-1908; and Walker family papers, 1775-1876. New York Public Library New York, NY Papers: Correspondence in John Wolcott Phelps papers, 1833-1884; William Cullen Bryant papers, 1804-1913 (bulk 1820-1898). New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections Albany, NY Papers: 1 letter (August 11, 1872) to Miss Luce, concerning his support for Horace Greeley for President; and correspondence in Edwin Denson Morgan papers, 1830-1872. Peabody Essex Museum Salem, MA http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Guide to Research Papers Page 5 of 7 Papers: 26 letters including correspondence in Gilbert F. Streeter papers, 1845-1905; Young Men's Union papers, 1855-1880; John Greenleaf Whittier papers, 1781-1922; and Salem Female Anti- Slavery Society records, 1834-1866. Pierpont Morgan Library New York, NY Papers: 8 items (1848-1867); and ca. 34 items (1848-1874) on slavery and political topics in the Gilder Lehrman collection. Finding aid. Providence Athenaeum Providence, RI Papers: 1 letter in Manuscript collection, 1749-1899. Radcliffe College Schlesinger Library Cambridge, MA Papers: In Agnes Goldman Sanborn papers, 1752-1984 (1808- 1984); Ellis Gray Loring family papers, 1809-1942; Julia Ward Howe family papers, 1787-1984, available on microfilm; Harriet Goodhue Hosmer papers, 1834-1959, available on microfilm; Jane Gray Dodge papers, 1861-1951; Browne family papers, 1802-1963 (bulk 1833-1908); and Almy family papers, 1649-1984. Syracuse University George Arents Research Library Syracuse, NY Papers: 34 letters and 2 incoming letters (1845-1872) in the Gerrit Smith papers; in Samuel Hooper collection, 1856-1874; and Francis William Newman papers, 1864-1905. Union College Schaffer Library Special Collections Schenectady, NY Papers: 79 letters to or from Sumner in Bigelow collection, 1848- 1880. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Guide to Research Papers Page 6 of 7 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Papers: 1848-1873. 9 items. Letters to Rev. William Henry Furness and Horace Howard Furness. University of Rochester Rush Rhees Library Rochester, NY Papers: 248 letters by and 67 to Sumner (1852-1869) in various collections. Finding aid. University of Virginia Alderman Library Charlottesville, VA Papers: Correspondence in various collections; and an account of Representative Preston Brooks' attack on Sumner in Lawrence O'Bryan Branch papers, 1840-1962. Finding aid. Wellesley College Special Collections Wellesley, MA Papers: 1843-1862. 5 items. Includes 104-page diary (1857), 1 letter by Sumner (September 15, 1862) and 3 letters to Sumner (November 1843 and December 1, no year). Wichita State University Library Wichita, KS Papers: Correspondence in Eunice McIntosh Merrill collection of William Lloyd Garrison papers, 1814-1879. Yale University Libraries Manuscripts and Archives New Haven, CT Papers: In Daniel Webster papers, 1800-1895 (bulk 1824-1852), on 8 microfilm reels of originals at Library of Congress; John McLean papers, 1817-1861, on 18 microfilm reels of originals at Library of Congress; Loomis-Wilder family papers, 1790-1912; William Smith http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Guide to Research Papers Page 7 of 7 Mason autograph collection, 1800-1929; Anson Conger Goodyear collection, 1813-1890; Samuel Bowles papers, 1853-1890; and S. Griswold Flagg collection, 1825-1938. The Papers of Charles Sumner Department of History Pomona College Clarement, CA Documentary publication project. Research Libraries Information Network In addition to the institutions listed above, items are also cataloged in collections at: Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, Buffalo, NY; Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Harvard College Library, Theatre Collection, Cambridge, MA; Harvard Divinity School, Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Cambridge, MA; Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, MA; Harvard University Archives, Cambridge, MA; Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, IN; Johns Hopkins University, Special Collections, Baltimore, MD; New York Times Archives, New York, NY; Northwestern University Library, Evanston, IL; Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA; Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY; Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, CA; State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; State University of New York, Albany, Special Collections, Albany, NY; University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library, Ann Arbor, MI; University of Rochester, Rush Rhees Library, Rochester, NY; and University of Toledo Library, Toledo, OH. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Bibliography Page 1 of 4 Biographical Directory of the SUMNER, Charles, 1811-1874 United States Congress Extended Bibliography Blue, Frederick J. Charles Sumner and the Conscience of the North. Arlington Heights, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1994. "The Poet and the Reformer: . 1774 Present Longfellow, Sumner, and the Bonds of Male Friendship." Journal of the Early Republic 15 (Summer 1995): 273-97. Biography Bourke, Paul F., and Donald A. Research Collections DeBats. "Charles Sumner, the London Bibliography Ballot Society, and the Senate Debate of March 1867." Perspectives New Search in American History 1 (1984): 343-357. House History Page Chaplin, Jeremiah, and Jane Dunbar Chaplin. The Life of Charles Senate History Page Sumner Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1874. Cohen, Victor H. "Charles Sumner and Foreign Relations." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1951. Cornell, William Mason, ed. Charles Sumner: Memoir and Eulogies. Boston: J.H. Earle, 1874. Dawes, Anna Laurens. Charles Sumner New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1892. Donald, David Herbert. Charles Sumner New York: Da Capo Press, 1996. A one volume, unabridged republication of Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War(1960) and Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man (1970), with new introduction by the author. . Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War. 1960. Reprint. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1987. . Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man. New York: Alfred A. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Bibliography Page 2 of 4 Knopf, 1970. Filippelli, Ronald L. "Charles Sumner, Doctor Jackson, and the Mountain." Pennsylvania History 38 (April 1971): 152-62. Freidel, Frank. "Francis Lieber, Charles Sumner, and Slavery." Journal of Southern History 9 (February 1943): 75-93. Gienapp, William E. "The Crime Against Sumner: The Caning of Charles Sumner and the Rise of the Republican Party." Civil War History 25 (September 1979): 218-45. Gradin, Harlan Joel. "Losing Control: The Caning of Charles Sumner and the Breakdown of Antebellum Political Culture." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1991. Grimke, Archibald Henry. The Life of Charles Sumner, the Scholar in Politics. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1892. Harsha, David Addison. The Life of Charles Sumner. New York: Dayton & Burdick, 1856. Haynes, George Henry. Charles Sumner. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs & Co., 1909. Hoffert, Sylvia D. "The Brooks-Sumner Affair: Prelude to Civil War." Civil War Times Illustrated 11 (October 1972): 35-40. Jager, Ronald B. "Charles Sumner, the Constitution, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875." New England Quarterly 42 (September 1969): 350-72. Kazarian, Richard, Jr. "Working Radicals: The Early Political Careers of William Seward, Thaddeus Stevens, Henry Wilson, Charles Sumner, Salmon P. Chase, and Hannibal Hamlin." Ph.D. dissertation, Brown University, 1981. Ledbetter, Bill. "Charles Sumner: Political Activist for the New England Transcendentalists." Historian 44 (May 1982): 347-63. Lester, Charles Edwards. Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner. New York: United States Publishing Co., 1874. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Bibliography Page 3 of 4 Nancarrow, Douglas Merrill. "An Analysis of the Rhetorical and Historical Role Played by the Hon. Charles A. Sumner in the Ratification of the Treaty to Purchase Russian America." Ph.D. dissertation, Washington State University, 1980. Nason, Elias. The Life and Times of Charles Sumner. Boston: B.B. Russell, 1874. Palmer, Beverly Wilson, ed. "From Small Minority to Great Cause: Letters of Charles Sumner to Salmon P. Chase." Ohio History 93 (Summer-Autumn 1984): 164-83. , ed. The Papers of Charles Sumner. Alexandria, VA: Chadwyck-Healey, 1988. Microfilm. 85 reels and guide. , ed. The Selected Letters of Charles Sumner. 2 vols. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990. Peyton, Thomas Joseph, Jr. "Charles Sumner and United States Foreign Relations During the American Civil War." Ph.D. dissertation, Georgetown University, 1972. Pierce, Edward Lillie. Memoirs and Letters of Charles Sumner. 4 vols. 1877-1894. Reprint. New York: Arno Press, 1969. Pierson, Michael D. "All Southern Society is Assailed by the Foulest Charges': Charles Sumner's 'The Crime Against Kansas' and the Escalation of Republican Anti-slavery Rhetoric." The New England Quarterly LXVIII (December 1995): 531-557. Ruchames, Louis. "Charles Sumner and American Historiography." Journal of Negro History 38 (April 1953): 139-60. Schurz, Carl. Charles Sumner, an Essay. Edited by Arthur Reed Hogue. 1951. Reprint. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972. Shannon, Margaret. "Charles Sumner and the Alaska Purchase." In Russian America: The Forgotten Frontier, edited by Barbara Sweetland Smith and Redmond J. Barnett, pp. 109-19. Tacoma: Washington State Historical Society, 1990. Shotwell, Walter Gaston. Life of Charles Sumner. New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co., 1910. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004 SUMNER, Charles (1811-1874) Bibliography Page 4 of 4 Stocker, Glenn. "Charles Sumner's Rhetoric of Insult." Southern Speech Communication Journal 38 (Spring 1973): 223-34. Storey, Moorfield. Charles Sumner. 1900. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1972. Sumner, Charles. Charles Sumner: His Complete Works. 15 vols. 1870-1883. Reprint of 1900 ed. (20 vols.). New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969. U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Charles Sumner (a Senator of Massachusetts). 43d Cong., 1st sess., 1873-1874. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=S001068 5/31/2004