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Throughout the platform round icons are events relating to individuals and their right to have an opinion in particular debates:

Person joining a committee

Person leaving a committee

Person elected to a position

Roll-call

Parchment-coloured, square icons relate to the creation and amending of documents:

Create a new proposal

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Amendment taken from another committee

Debate a proposal

Documents that have an explicit subtype can be displayed with a slightly different icon:

Legislative text

Formal Resolutions

A message to be sent elsewhere

A petition to be considered

Rules and Orders of Business

Diamond-shaped, purple icons relate to decisions taken:

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Refer a proposal to another committee

Adopt a proposal

Other vote (continue debate)

Reject a proposal

Postpone a debate

Blue, hexagon-shaped icons relate to 'procedural' proposals that do not directly alter text but affect how a committee does its work (and are usually used only for transient things, such as a point of order.)

Procedural motion

Procedural motion with sub-decisions

Debate on a procedural motion

This page displays an overview of the events a person was involved in during a convention and the votes that he/she won or lost.

Select the relevant committee on the left. Along the top, the line of the selected committee's events will highlight those moments where an event is tagged with this person.

In the lower part of the page a list of the votes taken will allow you to see whether this person was on the winning or losing side (where it is known).

The Road to Civil War

Albert S. White

(24 October, 1803 -- 4 September, 1864) White was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Orange County, New York, White studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1825. After moving to Indiana, White served as assistant clerk to the State Houe of Representatives (1830-1831) and as clerk (1832-1835). After an unsuccessful attempt to run for the Twenty-Third Congress, White was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-Fifth Congress serving from March 4, 1837 to March 3, 1839. White was declined as a candidate to reelection. Later, White was elected as a Whig to the United States Senate serving from March 4, 1839 to March 3, 1845. White moved to Indiana to practice law before being elected once again to the Thirty-Seventh Congress as a Republican serving from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1863. Afterwards, White was appointed by President Lincoln as a commissioner to adjust the claims of citizens of Minnesota and Dakota against the government for Indian depredations. Subsequently, White was appointed Judge of the United States Court for the District of Indiana in 1864, serving in the role until his death in 1864. [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774- Present', available at http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp]

Member of Indiana Delegation - The Road to Civil War [this display].

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