PRINTER'S NO. 1361
No. 196 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY BOYD, STURLA, ARMSTRONG, TRUE, HICKERNELL,
BALDWIN, DENLINGER, CREIGHTON, NICKOL, RUBLEY, J. EVANS,
SCHRODER, FORCIER, GINGRICH, GEIST, WATSON, TURZAI, PICKETT,
HERSHEY, FABRIZIO, GABIG, THOMAS, HUTCHINSON, DONATUCCI,
LEDERER, B. SMITH, FICHTER, CRAHALLA, SANTONI, WILT, WALKO,
SURRA, GILLESPIE, HERMAN, BAKER, HARHART, MAJOR, CAUSER,
DeWEESE, BROWNE, MYERS, STETLER, HESS, LEWIS, JAMES,
MAITLAND, SAINATO, HARPER, ROHRER, ROSS, CAPPELLI, PAYNE,
LEVDANSKY, CALTAGIRONE, SEMMEL, O'NEILL, SCAVELLO, ZUG,
McILHATTAN, PISTELLA, CLYMER, SHANER, SAYLOR AND LAUGHLIN,
APRIL 14, 2003
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
APRIL 14, 2003
A RESOLUTION
1 Commemorating the anniversary of the birth of Thaddeus Stevens
2 on April 4th.
3 WHEREAS, Thaddeus Stevens, a prominent figure in the 19th
4 century history of Pennsylvania and the United States, was born
5 in Vermont on April 4, 1792; and
6 WHEREAS, Stevens lived most of his life in Pennsylvania,
7 teaching, practicing law and serving in the Pennsylvania
8 Legislature from 1833 to 1841 and representing Pennsylvanians in
9 Congress from 1849 to 1853 and again from 1858 until his death
10 in 1868; and
11 WHEREAS, An outspoken abolitionist, Stevens was one of the
12 leading organizers of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; and
13 WHEREAS, Stevens notably fought for the preservation of
1 public education in Pennsylvania, for emancipation of the
2 slaves, for passage of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of
3 the United States and for Reconstruction of the South after the
4 Civil War; and
5 WHEREAS, Stevens directed that, upon his death, he be buried
6 in an integrated cemetery in the City of Lancaster with this
7 self-composed epitaph on his grave marker: "I have chosen this
8 that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I
9 advocated through a long life, Equality of Man before his
10 Creator"; therefore be it
11 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives commemorate the
12 anniversary of the birth of this remarkable man, Thaddeus
13 Stevens, born on April 4, 1792.
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