John Bingham

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John Bingham was a prominent 19th-century American congressman and Radical Republican best known as a principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf American politician
Radical Republican
human
lawyer
country United States of America
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
era 19th century
ethnicGroup White American
familyName Bingham
fieldOfWork Reconstruction era
surface form: Reconstruction policy

civil rights
constitutional law
givenName John
hasInfluenced United States constitutional law
civil rights jurisprudence
interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment
ideology anti-slavery
egalitarianism
jurisdiction United States government
surface form: United States federal government
knownFor advocacy of due process protections against state action
advocacy of equal protection of the laws
drafting key language of the Fourteenth Amendment
languageSpoken English
legalSystem common law
memberOf United States House of Representatives
memberOfPoliticalParty Radical Republicanism
surface form: Radical Republicans

Republican Party
movement Radical Republicanism
surface form: Reconstruction-era Radical Republicanism
notableFor role in shaping post-Civil War constitutional amendments
notableRole principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
notableWork Fourteenth Amendment
surface form: Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
occupation lawyer
politician
prosecutor
partOf Reconstruction era
surface form: Reconstruction era of the United States
positionHeld Member of the United States House of Representatives
sexOrGender male
workLocation United States Congress
Washington, D.C.

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