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===U.S. Senate===
===U.S. Senate===
As a Whig, Wade won a special election to Ohio's Class I Senate seat in 1851.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=142492 OH US Senate Special Race - Mar 14, 1851]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved November 9, 2021.</ref> When the party collapsed due to internal division over [[slavery]], he helped form the [[Republican Party]], which he joined.<ref name=battlefieldtrust/>
As a Whig, Wade won a special election to Ohio's Class I Senate seat in 1851.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=142492 OH US Senate Special Race - Mar 14, 1851]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved November 9, 2021.</ref> When the party collapsed due to internal division over [[slavery]], he helped form the [[Republican Party]], which he joined.<ref name=battlefieldtrust/> Sen. Wade was re-elected in 1856<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=142494 OH US Senate Race - Nov 04, 1856]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved November 9, 2021.</ref> and 1862.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=142495 OH US Senate Race - Nov 00, 1862]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved November 9, 2021.</ref>
Joining GOP ranks as a Radical Republican, Wade was an ardent supporter of [[women's suffrage]] and trade unions.<ref name=battlefieldtrust/> He voiced heavy opposition towards the Fugitive Slave Act and the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]], drawing the ire of Southerners.
Joining GOP ranks as a Radical Republican, Wade was an ardent supporter of [[women's suffrage]] and trade unions.<ref name=battlefieldtrust/> He voiced heavy opposition towards the Fugitive Slave Act and the [[Kansas-Nebraska Act]], drawing the ire of Southerners.