Representative, Pennsylvania · 1849–1868
Thaddeus Stevens
Floor leader of Radical Reconstruction. Land, the franchise, and a hard peace for the Confederacy.
Thaddeus Stevens is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Representative, Pennsylvania, 1849–1868. The placement note is: Floor leader of Radical Reconstruction. Land, the franchise, and a hard peace for the Confederacy.
The dot is economics -4 and authority +8. That is near the middle on economics. The other axis sits near the middle. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
Said: Confiscate planter land and give the franchise to Black men. Done: The franchise amendments passed. The land redistribution did not. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are J. William Fulbright (-4 / +8) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (-8 / +4). Nearness is not a school of thought.
This page does not add votes that are not in the placement note. The bills themselves are in the Congressional Record for those years.