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Jakob Stämpfli

Swiss politician
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Jakob Stämpfli (born Feb. 23, 1820, Janzenhaus, Switz.—died May 15, 1879, Bern) was a radical politician, three times president of the Swiss Confederation. A radical Bernese lawyer and founder of a local newspaper (Berner Zeitung), Stämpfli participated in the abortive armed attack on the clericalist government of Luzern (1845) and between 1846 and 1850 played an important role in the cantonal politics of Bern. After conservative gains in the elections of 1850, he used the...

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