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Charles Sumner Charles Sumner was born in Boston, Massachusetts in January 6, 1811. He lived most of his life in his hometown but visited other places like Europe. Charles was a politician, statesman, orator, academic lawyer, republican and leader of the Radical Republicans. Sumner died in Washington D.C. March 11, 1874. His father was a lawyer and abolitionist who graduated from Harvard. Charles’s mother had the same background as his father. Sumner was married to Alice Mason Cooper in 1866 but they were not a perfect match due to him not responding to her humor and her having a short temper. Sumner graduated from Harvard where his parents graduated from. Charles did not own any slaves; in fact, he was the leader of the anti-slavery forces in Massachusetts. He also devoted the destruction of slave power. He was the co-author of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Sumner represented the plaintiffs in Roberts v. Boston, a case that challenged the legality of segregation. One of his famous quotes was “By creating a society where knowledge, virtue and religion took precedence, the most forlorn shall grow into forms of unimagined strength and beauty.”