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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]].
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Although likely insignificant in terms of quantitative composition, [[Seventh-day Adventists]] were a component of the Radical Republicans<ref>Bruinsma, Reinder (1994). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Seventh_day_Adventist_Attitudes_Toward_R/hlkmAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=seventh-day+adventists+radical+republicans&dq=seventh-day+adventists+radical+republicans&printsec=frontcover Seventh-day Adventist attitudes toward Roman Catholicism, 1844-1965], p. 98. ''Google Books''. Retrieved February 20, 2023.</ref> 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]]
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