Free Soil Party - Other Noted Free Soilers

Other Noted Free Soilers

  • Charles Francis Adams, Sr., Party's vice presidential candidate in 1848
  • Walter Booth, U.S. Congressman from Connecticut
  • David C. Broderick, U.S. Senator from California
  • William Cullen Bryant
  • Salmon P. Chase, U.S. Senator from Ohio
  • Oren B. Cheney, legislator from Maine, founder of Bates College
  • Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
  • Sidney Edgerton, U.S. Congressman from Ohio, Chief Justice of the Idaho Territorial Supreme Court, and Territorial Governor of Montana
  • Leander F. Frisby, Wisconsin Attorney General
  • Joshua Reed Giddings, U.S. Congressman from Ohio
  • Francis Gillette, U.S. Senator from Connecticut
  • James Harlan, U.S. Senator from Iowa
  • Horace Mann
  • Charles Sumner, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts
  • Walt Whitman
  • John Greenleaf Whittier
  • Henry Wilson

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