Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts made a name for himself as an advocate of liberal causes. His outspoken support of abolition and the rights of emancipated blacks, and his calls for ...

In Washington, anti-slavery Senator Charles Sumner decried the spread of slavery to Kansas and accused Southerners of "raping and plundering the virgin territory." South Carolina Congressman ...

Charles Sumner entered the freshman class Sept. 1, 1826. The undergraduates, now numbering nearly a thousand, at that period scarcely reached two hundred. Rev. John T. Kirkland was the president.

HOWE, CHARLES SUMNER (29 Sept. 1858-18 Apr. 1939), college educator and president of the Case School of Applied Science (1902-29) (see CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY), was born in Nashua, N.H., to ...