Political Career and The Civil War
Addams served for sixteen years in the Illinois Senate, where he acquired a reputation for integrity; as one historian phrased it, "he became famous as a man who not only had never taken a bribe, but had never been offered one. He participated in the founding of the Republican Party and was a friend of Abraham Lincoln's.
During the Civil War, Addams helped to raise and equip a regiment that became known as "the Addams Guard."
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