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Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

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Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

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Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

This page displays an overview of the events a person was involved in during a convention and the votes that he/she won or lost.

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In the lower part of the page a list of the votes taken will allow you to see whether this person was on the winning or losing side (where it is known).

United States Fifteenth Amendment

B. Frank Whittemore

"May 18, 1824 -- January 25, 1894). Benjamin Franklin Whittemore was a(n) merchant, minister in a church, soldier, public servant, president of a board, publisher, and American politician. He was born in Malden, Middlesex County, Massachusetts and moved to South Carolina. He studied theology and became a minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church of New England Conference (1859). Benjamin served as chaplain of the 53rd Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteers and the 30th Regiment of Veteran Volunteers. He was a delegate to the South Carolina state constitutional convention (1867), president of the Republican South Carolina state executive board (1867), founded the New Era in Darlington, member of the South Carolina senate (1868 and 1877), and delegate to the Republican National Convention (1868). Wittemore was elected as a Republican to the 40th and 41st Congress (July 18, 1868 - his resignation February 24, 1870). He was censured by the U.S. House of Representatives (February 24, 1870) for selling an appointment of the United States Naval Academy. Benjamin presented credentials for a special election to the 41st Congress (June 18, 1870) but the House declined. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - Present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=W000427]"

Member of South Carolina Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 , South Carolina Delegation - United States Fifteenth Amendment [this display].

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