U.S. Congressman
As a congressman, he served on the Joint Committee on Reconstruction which drafted the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In 1868, as a congressman, he served as one of the special prosecutors in the impeachment trials of President Andrew Johnson.
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