Carl Schurz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Carl Schurz

Union Army general, politician

Date of Birth: 02-Mar-1829

Place of Birth: Liblar, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 14-May-1906

Profession: writer, politician, military officer, diplomat, editor, journalist, revolutionary

Nationality: United States, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Carl Schurz

  • Carl Christian Schurz (German: [????ts]; March 2, 1829 – May 14, 1906) was a German revolutionary and an American statesman, journalist, and reformer.
  • He emigrated to the United States after the German revolutions of 1848–49 and became a prominent member of the new Republican Party.
  • After serving as a Union general in the American Civil War, he helped found the short-lived Liberal Republican Party and became a prominent advocate of civil service reform.
  • Schurz represented Missouri in the United States Senate and was the 13th United States Secretary of the Interior. Born in the Kingdom of Prussia's Rhine Province, Schurz fought for democratic reforms in the German revolutions of 1848–49 as a member of the academic fraternity association Deutsche Burschenschaft.
  • After Prussia suppressed the revolution Schurz fled to France.
  • When police forced him to leave France he migrated to London.
  • Like many other "Forty-Eighters," he then emigrated to the United States, settling in Watertown, Wisconsin, in 1852.
  • After being admitted to the Wisconsin bar, he established a legal practice in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
  • He also became a strong advocate for the anti-slavery movement and joined the newly organized Republican Party, unsuccessfully running for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin.
  • After briefly representing the United States as Minister (ambassador) to Spain, Schurz served as a general in the American Civil War, fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg and other major battles. After the war, Schurz established a newspaper in St.
  • Louis, Missouri, and won election to the U.S.
  • Senate, becoming the first German-born American elected to that body.
  • Breaking with Republican President Ulysses S.
  • Grant, Schurz helped establish the Liberal Republican Party.
  • The party advocated civil service reform and opposed Grant's efforts to protect African-American civil rights in the Southern United States during Reconstruction.
  • Schurz chaired the 1872 Liberal Republican convention, which nominated a ticket that unsuccessfully challenged President Grant in the 1872 presidential election.
  • Schurz lost his own 1874 re-election bid and resumed his career as a newspaper editor. After Republican Rutherford B.
  • Hayes won the 1876 presidential election, he appointed Schurz as his Secretary of the Interior.
  • Schurz sought to make civil service based on merit rather than political and party connections and helped prevent the transfer of the Bureau of Indian Affairs to the War Department.
  • Schurz moved to New York City after Hayes left office in 1881 and briefly served as the editor of the New York Evening Post and The Nation and later became the editorial writer for Harper's Weekly.
  • He remained active in politics and led the "Mugwump" movement, which opposed nominating James G.
  • Blaine in the 1884 presidential election.
  • Schurz opposed William Jennings Bryan's bimetallism in the 1896 presidential election but supported Bryan's anti-imperalist campaign in the 1900 presidential election.
  • Schurz died in New York City in 1906.

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