Wendell Phillips (politician)

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Wendell Phillips

Wendell Phillips (born November 29, 1811 in Boston , Massachusetts , † February 2, 1884 there ) was an American abolitionist and politician .

Wendell Phillips was one of the most important abolitionists (opponents of slavery) in New England alongside William Lloyd Garrison and fought for the abolition of slavery in the United States as one of the greatest speakers in the Northern States .

In 1831 he graduated from Harvard University . He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1833 and opened a law firm in Boston in 1834. From 1836 Phillips dedicated himself to the fight against slavery and worked as an author for the newspaper "Liberator" founded in 1831 by William Lloyd Garrison. Phillips was a co-founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society .

Phillips campaigned for women's suffrage and the abolition of the death penalty after the American Civil War . In 1870 he stood in the Massachusetts gubernatorial election as a candidate for the short-lived Labor Reform Party . With 14.6 percent of the vote, he finished third behind the victorious Republican William Claflin and the Democrat John Quincy Adams II. He ran again for this office in 1877, this time for the Greenback Party , but achieved no significant result.

His father was the first Boston Mayor John Phillips .

Quotes from Wendell Phillips

  • Religious differences generate more arguments than political party differences.
  • To be as good as our fathers we have to be better. Imitation is not a form of following.

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SURNAME Phillips, Wendell
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American abolitionist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1884
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts