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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

Create a new document that is a line-by-line revision of another document (noted by the pen icon in the corner)

Document amendment proposed

Document taken from another committee (note arrow in corner)

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:

Drop a proposal

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 Civil Rights Act of 1875

Richard J. Oglesby

(July 25, 1824 — April 24, 1899) Richard James Oglesby was a farmer, carpenter, rope-maker, miner, lawyer, and politician. Oglesby was born in Floydsburg, Kentucky in 1824. After being orphaned, he moved to Illinois to be raised by an uncle. Oglesby received limited schooling in his childhood but learned trades such as rope-making and carpentry. He later worked in those trades, and as a farmer. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1845 and practiced law in Sullivan, Illinois. After serving in the Mexican War, Oglesby worked as a miner in California for a two years. He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate during the Thirty-Sixth Congress, but only served for the first session before resigning to fight in the Union Army during the Civil War. He attained the ranks of colonel, brigadier general, and major general while serving in the Illinois Volunteer Infantry. After the Civil War, he was elected Governor of Illinois and served in that capacity from 1865 to 1869. He was again elected as Governor in 1872 but only served until 1873, when he was again elected to the United States Senate. Oglesby served as a Republican in the Senate from March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1879, after which he served as Governor of Illinois for four more years from 1885 to 1889. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/O000048]

Member of Illinois Delegation - The Civil Rights Act of 1875 [this display].

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