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Carl Schurz

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

(March 2, 1829 — May 14, 1906) Schurz was a newspaper correspondent, teacher, lawyer, and politician. Carl Schurz was born in Liblar, Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1852. Prior to immigrating, he attended the University of Bonn and took part in the German revolutionary movement in 1848. Schurz fled to Paris, where he worked as a newspaper correspondent. Later he taught school in London before moving to the United States. In the United States, Schurz settled in Wisconsin, studied law and was admitted to the bar. During the Civil War he enlisted in the Union Army as a brigadier general. After the war, he worked for a newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Schurz was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate undeserved during the Forty-First, Forty-Second, and Forty-Third Congresses from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000151]

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