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David Wilmot (January 20, 1814 – March 16, 1868) was an American politician and judge. He served as Representative and a Senator for Pennsylvania and as a judge of the Court of Claims.
David Wilmot is an Irish stage, screen and television actor. Career. Wilmot's theatre credits include Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, As You Like It with the Druid Theatre Company in Galway and Juno and the Paycock in London 's West End. [1] .
David Wilmot is known for Anna Karenina (2012), Intermission (2003) and The Guard (2011).
Quick Facts. A U.S. Congressman (1845-1851) and later Senator (1861-1863) from Pennsylvania, David Wilmot sponsored an amendment to an appropriations bill in the House of Representatives on August 8, 1846, which proposed the banning of slavery in land gained from Mexico in the Mexican-American War. The resolution, which became known as the ...
Jun 7, 2022 · In 1846, a Pennsylvania representative named David Wilmot proposed legislation intended to bar slavery’s expansion into the lands acquired after the Mexican-American War. The Wilmot Proviso...
Jun 8, 2018 · David Wilmot was a lawyer, judge, U.S. senator, and member of the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1845 to 1851 the Pennsylvania Democrat served in the House where he drew national attention for his 1846 proposal.
David Wilmot of Pennsylvania in 1846 introduced into Congress his famous Wilmot Proviso, calling for the prohibition of slavery in the vast southwestern lands that had been newly acquired from Mexico. The Wilmot concept, which failed in Congress, was a direct ideological antecedent to the… Read More
On August 8, 1846, David Wilmot, PA Congressman, introduced legislation prohibiting slavery in the territories won in the Mexican-American War.
David Wilmot was a politician and lawyer known for his commitment to containing slavery, outlined in his influential Wilmot Proviso. Born in 1814, in rural Bethany, Pennsylvania, Wilmot began studying law in the 1830s, when he married Anne Morgan, with whom he raised three children.
David Wilmot was an American lawyer and politician who is best known for proposing the Wilmot Proviso, a failed amendment that sought to prohibit the expansion of slavery into any territory acquired from Mexico during the Mexican-American War.