John Armor Bingham (January 21, 1815 â March 19, 1900) was an American Republican congressman from the U.S. state of Ohio, judge advocate in the trial of the Abraham Lincoln assassination and a prosecutor in the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson. He is also the principal framer of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Was Mr. Bingham a Founder? No. This idea would have ruled ineligible our first eight presidents!