Representative/Senator James F. Wilson Author 13th Amendment CDV by Mathew Brady

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Matthew Brady CDV of James F. (Falconer) Wilson.
James Wilson was a Radical Republican congressman.
1861-1869,
and Senator,
1883-1895,
from Iowa.  In December 1863, he introduced a bill into the U.S. House of Representatives for a constitutional amendment to ban slavery in the entire United States.  It was an essential part of the foundation for what became the Thirteenth Amendment to the
Constitution
(ratified in December 1865).
13
th
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America
The proposal by Representative James Mitchell Ashley, which was followed by a similar proposal by Representative James F. Wilson, in 1863, can be considered as a trigger to several legislative proposals that arose in the following year. Senator John Henderson submitted a joint resolution for a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery on January the 11th, 1864. Illinois Republican Senator Lyman Trumbull, who headed The Senate Judiciary Committee, started to consider several versions of the abolition amendment. Finally, on February 10th, 1864, the Senate Judiciary Committee reported to the full Senate an abolition amendment and passed the Senate on April 8, 1864. On January 31, 1865, the House of Representatives passed the 13th amendment and ratified it on December 6, 1865. The 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.