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The main leaders were Representative [[Thaddeus Stevens]] of Pennsylvania and Senator [[Charles Sumner]] of Massachusetts. Another prominent figure was Sen. [[Zachariah Chandler]] of [[Michigan]]. Other Radical Republicans included [[Benjamin Wade]] of [[Ohio]], [[William H. Seward]] of [[New York]], [[William B. Allison]] and [[James F. Wilson]] of [[Iowa]], [[George F. Hoar]] and Benjamin Butler of [[Massachusetts]] as well as [[John C. Fremont]] of [[California]].

The main leaders were Representative [[Thaddeus Stevens]] of Pennsylvania and Senator [[Charles Sumner]] of Massachusetts. Another prominent figure was Sen. [[Zachariah Chandler]] of [[Michigan]]. Other Radical Republicans included [[Benjamin Wade]] of [[Ohio]], [[William H. Seward]] of [[New York]], [[William B. Allison]] and [[James F. Wilson]] of [[Iowa]], [[George F. Hoar]] and Benjamin Butler of [[Massachusetts]] as well as [[John C. Fremont]] of [[California]].

Although likely insignificant in terms of quantitative composition, [[Seventh-day Adventists]] were a component of the Radical Republicans due their biblically motivated support for civil rights and repulsion towards racial hatred. Their publications exhorted racial equality, and its prominent leader Ellen G. White vocally supported the Union cause during the Civil War, viewing the Confederates as satanically inspired.<ref>Weinberg, Carl R. (2021). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Red_Dynamite/WHwOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=seventh-day+adventists+radical+republicans&pg=PA61&printsec=frontcover Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America], p. 61. ''Google Books''. Retrieved February 20, 2023.</ref>

Although likely insignificant in terms of quantitative composition, [[Seventh-day Adventists]] were a component of the Radical Republicans due their biblically motivated support for civil rights and repulsion towards racial hatred. Adventist publications exhorted racial equality, and one of its prominent leaders, Ellen G. White, vocally supported the Union cause during the Civil War, viewing the Confederates as satanically inspired.<ref>Weinberg, Carl R. (2021). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Red_Dynamite/WHwOEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=seventh-day+adventists+radical+republicans&pg=PA61&printsec=frontcover Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America], p. 61. ''Google Books''. Retrieved February 20, 2023.</ref>

[[File:Stevens-T.jpg|thumb|240px|Thaddeus Stevens]]

[[File:Stevens-T.jpg|thumb|240px|Thaddeus Stevens]]