Article Title

Civil War Senator: William Pitt Fessenden and the Fight to Save the American Republic

Authors

Mark Wahlgren Summers

Abstract

An Updated Look at Senator Fessenden

William Pitt Fessenden was a senator’s senator. Dyspeptic, diligent, incorruptible and on some subjects indispensable, an aggressive debater and constructive force in committee, the Maine Republican came close to what the Founders must have envisione....