biography
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Carpenter, Matthew Hale
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originally Decatur Merritt Hammond Carpenter
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| lived:
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| biography:
| Lawyer and US senator, born in Moretown, Vermont, USA. Having moved to Wisconsin, where he practised law, he was elected to the US Senate (Republican, Wisconsin, 1869–75, 1879–81). An abolitionist sympathizer, he supported the Union and emancipation for the slaves during the Civil War. Highly regarded as a lawyer, in 1876 he was employed by William Belknap after he was charged with corruption as secretary of the treasury, and also by Samuel Tilden in his unsuccessful appeal before the Electoral Commission (1876). |
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