1832–1834 — Served as Paymaster-General of the Forces under Earl Grey. Source: Hansard, "Lord John Russell" — https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/lord-john-russell/index.html
Quote: "Paymaster-General of the Forces 1832–1834." — Hansard, office list.
The Lane Seminary Debates. Over eighteen evenings, students debated abolition versus colonization. Led by Theodore Dwight Weld, the student body voted overwhelmingly for immediate abolition. Beecher, a colonizationist, was absent during the debates. The seminary trustees subsequently attempted to suppress antislavery activity, prompting a mass student exodus — the Lane Rebels — many of whom enrolled at Oberlin College.
Quote: "Lane Theological Seminary opened to students in 1833, and in February, 1834, the students organized a series of debates about slavery."
The burning of the Ursuline Convent in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Beecher's anti-Catholic sermons in Boston were linked to the mob violence. Catholics charged that the arsonists had been "goaded on by Dr. Lyman Beecher," though Beecher denied direct responsibility, claiming his sermon was delivered before his presence in Boston was generally known.
Source: Harriet Beecher Stowe House, "Meet the Beecher Family"