Reconstruction Committee. The Joint Committee of fifteen appointed to ‘inquire into the condition of affairs in the so-called confederate States” who finally adopted, April 28, 1866, a series of resolutions embodying a recommendation which afterward took form as the Fourteenth amendment. Senators W P Fessenden, Maine, Chairman; F W Grimes, Iowa; Ira Harris, New York; F M Howard, Michigan; George H Williams, Oregon. Representatives: Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania; E B Washburn, Illinois; Justin S Morrill, Vermont; J A Bingham, Ohio; G S Boutwell, Massachusetts; Roscoe Conkling, New York; H T Bl

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Reconstruction Committee. The Joint Committee of fifteen appointed to ‘inquire into the condition of affairs in the so-called confederate States” who finally adopted, April 28, 1866, a series of resolutions embodying a recommendation which afterward took form as the Fourteenth amendment. Senators W P Fessenden, Maine, Chairman; F W Grimes, Iowa; Ira Harris, New York; F M Howard, Michigan; George H Williams, Oregon. Representatives: Thaddeus Stevens, Pennsylvania; E B Washburn, Illinois; Justin S Morrill, Vermont; J A Bingham, Ohio; G S Boutwell, Massachusetts; Roscoe Conkling, New York; H T Blow, Missouri; H M Grider, Kentucky; A J Rodgers, New Jersey; Senator Reverdy Johnson, Maryland. The last three were against the resolutions

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