Bill Text: PA HR85 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designating April 4, 2009, as "Thaddeus Stevens Day" in Pennsylvania.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2009-03-24 - Adopted [HR85 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HR85-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 507
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No. 85 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY STURLA, BOYD, BAKER, BARRAR, BEYER, BISHOP, BROWN, BUXTON, COHEN, CONKLIN, CREIGHTON, CUTLER, DeLUCA, DePASQUALE, DiGIROLAMO, DONATUCCI, FLECK, FRANKEL, GEIST, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GROVE, GRUCELA, HELM, HENNESSEY, HICKERNELL, KORTZ, KOTIK, KULA, MAHONEY, MAJOR, MANN, McCALL, MILLARD, MOUL, MURT, MUSTIO, O'NEILL, PALLONE, PARKER, PAYNE, PHILLIPS, QUINN, REICHLEY, ROCK, ROHRER, ROSS, SAINATO, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, K. SMITH, STABACK, SWANGER, THOMAS, TRUE, VULAKOVICH, WALKO, WATSON AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 18, 2009
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35, FEBRUARY 18, 2009
A RESOLUTION
Designating April 4, 2009, 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 1858 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
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 his
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 citizens 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 commemorate the
anniversary of the birth of this remarkable man by designating
April 4, 2009, as "Thaddeus Stevens Day" in Pennsylvania.
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