PRINTER'S NO. 3002
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
683
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY STURLA, MURT, ENGLISH, NEILSON, GREINER,
PASHINSKI, HENNESSEY, MILLARD, SCHLEGEL CULVER, LONGIETTI,
CUTLER, TOOHIL, TOEPEL, ROTHMAN, CALTAGIRONE, VAZQUEZ,
THOMAS, BIZZARRO, DUSH, SONNEY, DiGIROLAMO, HICKERNELL,
READSHAW, YOUNGBLOOD, CORBIN, SCHLOSSBERG, EVERETT, SAYLOR,
BOBACK, V. BROWN, RABB, DEAN, O'NEILL, D. COSTA, MARSICO,
B. MILLER, MENTZER, WARD, ZIMMERMAN, WARREN, SCHWEYER,
M. QUINN, OBERLANDER, HILL-EVANS, WATSON, KINSEY, BRADFORD,
GOODMAN, ROEBUCK AND GILLEN, FEBRUARY 8, 2018
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Designating April 4, 2018, as "Thaddeus Stevens Day" in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Thaddeus Stevens, a prominent figure in the 19th-
century history of Pennsylvania and the United States, was born
in Vermont on April 4, 1792; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Stevens lived most of his life in Pennsylvania,
teaching, practicing law and serving in the General Assembly
from 1833 to 1841 and representing Pennsylvanians in Congress
from 1849 to 1853 and again from 1859 until his death in 1868;
and
WHEREAS, Mr. Stevens notably fought for the preservation of
public education in this Commonwealth, for the emancipation of
slaves, for passage of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of
the United States and for Reconstruction of the South after the
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Civil War; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Stevens directed that, upon his death, he be
buried in an integrated cemetery in the City of Lancaster with
this self-composed epitaph on his grave marker: "I have chosen
this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I
advocated through a long life, equality of man before the
Creator"; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Stevens left a generous bequest upon his death
on August 11, 1868, to establish a school for the relief and
refuge of homeless, indigent orphans; and
WHEREAS, This bequest evolved to form the Thaddeus Stevens
College of Technology, founded to provide solid industrial
education to all residents of this Commonwealth regardless of
race or color and is a living monument to the life of Thaddeus
Stevens; therefore be it
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives designate April
4, 2018, as "Thaddeus Stevens Day" in Pennsylvania to
commemorate the 226th anniversary of the birth of this
remarkable man.
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