Samuel Pomeroy, photographed c. 1868 while a Republican U.S. Senator from Kansas, in that year introduced the Senate’s first constitutional amendment guaranteeing women’s voting rights. A former teacher and abolitionist state legislator in Massachusetts, he journeyed to Kansas Territory in 1850 as one of the first group of antislavery emigrants, along with Susan B. Anthony’s brother Daniel. He and Daniel Anthony were founders of Lawrence and combatants in the guerilla warfare dubbed “Bloody Kansas.”
Source photograph: Matthew B. Brady and Levin Corbin Handy, photographers; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Collection.
Date: c. 1868 (1865–80)
Samuel Pomeroy, photographed c. 1868 while a Republican U.S. Senator from Kansas, in that year introduced the Senate’s first constitutional amendment guaranteeing women’s voting rights. A former teacher and abolitionist state legislator in Massachusetts, he journeyed to Kansas Territory in 1850 as one of the first group of antislavery emigrants, along with Susan B. Anthony’s brother Daniel. He and Daniel Anthony were founders of Lawrence and combatants in the guerilla warfare dubbed “Bloody Kansas.”
Source photograph: Matthew B. Brady and Levin Corbin Handy, photographers; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Brady-Handy Collection.
Date: c. 1868 (1865–80)