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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)

Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

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:

Drop a proposal

Refer a proposal to another committee

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.

Select the relevant committee on the left. Along the top, the line of the selected committee's events will highlight those moments where an event is tagged with this person.

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).

The Civil Rights Act of 1875

Charles B. Farwell

(July 1, 1823 — September 23, 1903) Charles Benjamin Farwell was a government surveyor, farmer, businessman, and politician. Farwell was born in Painted Post, New York in 1823 and moved to Illinois in 1838. In Illinois he worked as a government surveyor and farmer until 1844 when he started working in banking and real estate. While working in the dry goods business, Farwell served as a member of the State board of equalization, chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Cook County, and national-bank examiner. He was first elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican to the Forty-Second Congress and served from March 4, 1871 to March 3, 1875. Although Farwell had presented his credentials to the Forty-Fourth Congress, he was succeeded by John LeMoyne, after LeMoyne successfully contested his election. However, he was elected to the Forty-Seventh Congress and served from 1881 to 1883. In 1887, Farwell was elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of John Logan in the United States Senate. He served in the Senate from January 19, 1887 to March 3, 1891. After serving in Congress, Farwell engaged in the mercantile business until his death in 1903. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/F000037]

Member of Illinois Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 [this display].

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