<Li> Edwin McMasters Stanton: U.S. Secretary of War under the Lincoln and Johnson Administrations . </Li> <Li> John Parker Hale U.S. Senator from New Hampshire . He was one of the first senators to make a stand against slavery </Li> <Li> James M. Hinds U.S. Congressman from Arkansas, murdered by the Klu Klux Klan in 1868 . </Li> <Li> Samuel J. Kirkwood U.S. Senator from Iowa </Li>

The republican party in the south in the late 1800s was made up of freedmen and of