Stanbery, Henry

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Henry Stanbery
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    5
    Family
    Jonas Stanbery (father), Francis E. Beecher (first wife), Cecilia Bond (second wife)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Washington College (PA)
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Political Parties
    Whig
    Republican
    Government
    Johnson Administration (1865-69)

    Henry Stanbery (American National Bibliography)

    Scholarship
    Although widely recognized as a man of integrity and principle, Stanbery was not adept at practicing the art of political compromise. Of conservative and somewhat inflexible temperment, his advice to Johnson encouraged the seventeenth president to become more recalcitrant in his attitude toward Congress. By encouraging this defiance through his interpretation of the Reconstruction Acts, Stanbery played a significant role in furthering conflict that resulted eventually in the first impeachment of a U.S. president.
    Bruce Tap, "Stanbery, Henry," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/04/04-00939.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Stanbery, Henry," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/12431.