When Thaddeus Stevens lost his congressional seat representing Lancaster, PA in 1853, he thought he would never see Congress again. "It is more than probable that hereafter I shall never meet any member here or elsewhere," Stevens told colleagues in March 1853. "I desire to part with no unfriendly feelings towards any of you," he said.
Was he ever wrong. He would come back in 1858 as a Republican and he would become the most powerful member of t…
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