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==Origins==

==Origins==

They were not a [[political party]], but more of a faction in the states, and an informal grouping among the Republicans in [[Congress]]. They began their rise to prominence in 1854, and after the election of 1860, they became a true force to be reckoned with when several of their members were given key committee chairmanships:  Thaddeus Stevens (Ways and Means), Owen Lovejoy (Agriculture), James Ashley (Territories), [[Henry Winter Davis]] (Foreign Relations), George W. Julian (Public Lands), Elihu Washburne (Commerce) and Henry Wilson (Judiciary).

They were not a [[political party]], but more of a faction in the states, and an informal grouping among the Republicans in [[Congress]]. They began their rise to prominence in 1854, and after the election of 1860, they became a true force to be reckoned with when several of their members were given key committee chairmanships:  Thaddeus Stevens (Ways and Means), Owen Lovejoy (Agriculture), James Ashley (Territories), [[Henry Winter Davis]] (Foreign Relations), George W. Julian (Public Lands), Elihu Washburne (Commerce) and Henry Wilson (Judiciary). Some, including Julian, later broke from Radicalism and joined the [[Liberal Republican Party]] in viewing "Grantist" machine politics as corrupt, instead favoring civil service reform.

==Civil War==

==Civil War==