Appius Claudius Pulcher (consul 135 BC)
Appius Claudius Pulcher was a Roman politican of the 2nd century BC. He was consul in 143 BC, censor in 136, and was also princeps senatus. He was a rival of Scipio the younger and allied with Tiberius Gracchus, who married his daughter Claudia. Claudius backed Tiberius' land reform bill and with Tiberius and his brother Gaius formed a triumvirate to survey the ager publicus, publicly owned land that Tiberius wanted to distribute among veterans of the Punic War. Another faction in the Senate opposed them and Tiberius was assassinated in 132. Claudius died soon after, probably in 130.
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