Matthew H. Carpenter
American politician (1824-1881) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 56
Matthew Hale Carpenter was an American lawyer, politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He represented Wisconsin for eight years as a United States senator, from 1869 to 1875 and again from 1879 until his death in 1881.
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He was recognized as an authority on constitutional law, and made some of the most important legal arguments of 19th-century America, presenting several cases before the United States Supreme Court involving such matters as states' rights and regulation of corporations; during the American Civil War, he argued many important cases establishing the legal framework for President Abraham Lincoln's war powers and the postwar Reconstruction Acts.
