Thaddeus Stevens of Lancaster County was a U.S. representative and the most powerful congressman during the Civil War and early Reconstruction, known as a master parliamentarian, brilliant orator, and passionate opponent of slavery. In the 1830s he championed free education in Pennsylvania, helped establish Gettysburg College, and aided employment through canal and railroad projects. In the 1850s and 1860s he belonged to the progressive wing of the Whig Party and later led the Radical Republicans in the U.S. House. Serving as Lancaster’s congressman from 1849-53 and 1859-1868, he supported the 14th Amendment for equality and civil liberties, led calls for emancipation and war against the South, and led the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson. From the 1840s through the 1860s he was also active in the Underground Railroad, harboring freedom seekers on his properties, organizing spies to thwart slave catchers, and defending the accused in the Resistance at Christiana in 1851. His bequest established a trade school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, now known as Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology. Stevens was buried in Shreiner-Concord Cemetery, founded in 1836 by Martin Shreiner, a noted maker of fine clocks and early fire engines, and the only public burial place in the city of Lancaster that accepted the remains of people of all races. Stevens chose burial there because other cemeteries were limited as to race by charter rules, writing that he wished in death to illustrate the principles he had advocated through a long life: equality of man before his creator. The cemetery is a site of national significance, and more than 40 veterans, mostly from the Civil War, are buried there.