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{{cquote|He’s a trimmer, and such a trimmer as the world has ever seen. …He is secretive, communicates no more of his own thoughts and purposes than he think will serve the ends he has in view; he has the faculty of gain the confidence of others by apparently giving them his own, and in that way attaches to himself many friends; he is one of the shrewdest men I have ever known; he is by no means the unsophisticated, artless man that many take him to be.|||Trumbull}}
Trumbull's economic positions were mixed; true to his [[populist ]] inclinations, he was previously a Democrat rather than a member of the [[Whig Party]] prior to the GOP's inception.<ref name=fascinatingpoliticsbio/> Despite voting for the Legal Tender Act that authorized printing bank notes with no connection to "hard money," he also voted against the Banking Act which provided national currency.
Their personal lives differed as did some of their political viewpoints; Trumbull was considerably more family-oriented than Lincoln had been, and a biography asserted that he "never relished the rough masculine company of the judicial circuit."<ref name=lincolnandfriends/> In addition, Trumbull's increasing inclination for supporting Radical Republicanism, joining calls made by [[Benjamin Wade]] and [[Zachariah Chandler]] to replace General [[Winfield Scott]] with [[George B. McClellan]].<ref name=lincolnandfriends/>
