Robert Toombs (1810-1885)
Herschel V. Johnson (1812-1880)
John Harris (1825-1905)
North Carolina-- Statehood Granted: November 21, 1789 State Motto: To be, rather than to seem
UNC, law, state the US House and Senate as Whig, fought duel with Yancey, BG during war, 25th NC, 7 Days, Cold Harbor, Petersburg.
Apprentice printer, lawyer, successful editor, leader of NC state Democrats, pro-slavery, opposes secession & then secedes, criticizes Davis, loses as peace candidate for Gov in 1864, then appointed NC Gov ’65 by Johnson as Republican, impeached in ’71 after prosecuting Ku Klux Klan, pardoned in 2011 by NC assembly.
Louisiana -- Statehood Granted: April 30, 1812 State Motto: Union, Justice, Confidence
John Forsyth (1821-1877)
William Woods Holden (1818-1892)
Politicians/Diplomats
Edwin Reade (1812-1894)
State politics as Whig, Unionist, Bell supporter, moderate, but joins CSA, fisticuffs with Yancey.
Long-term editor of Dem Party organ Mobile Register , CSA peace commissioner in 1861.
Southeastern States (Continued)
Modest start on Ga farm, orphaned at 14, uncle helps education, top of class at UGA, lawyer, defends woman slave vs. murder charge, tiny frame (<100 lbs) and sickly, success leads to land and slaves, then politics, state than US House ’43 to ’59, leading So Whig, stabbed 6 times in ’48 by Ga. SC Judge Francis Cone for moderate stance on slavery, befriends Lincoln, along with Toombs and Cobb, he supports the 1850 Compromise, the pro-So Georgia Platform and the Constitutional Union Party, supports Douglas to the end, gets Kansas-Nebraska Bill passed, opposes secession, but calls slavery the “natural condition” for the inferior blacks, elected VP of CSA, battles with Davis and calls for truce in ’64, arrested ’65, back in House ’73-82, Gov of Ga, “The Little Pale Star of Ga.”
Milwaukee businessman and abolitionist who buys a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1863 on a trip and is elected Senator (1868-71) as a Republican.
Thomas Clingman (1812-1897)
Ben Harvey Hill (1823-1882)
Edward Stanly (1810-1872)
Political family, law, Whig, US House ’37-43 and ’49-53, unwavering Unionist, California, loses CA governor race as Republican, named military gov of NC by Lincoln, uncle of Lewis Armistead.
Georgia (Continued)
Alexander Stephens (1812-1883)
Wealthy planter family, UGA at 14, card playing reprimand, Uva Law, good fellow well met, state then US House ’45-53, Whig leader with Stephens and Cobb, shifts to Constitutional Party and Dem as Senator ’53-’61, balks at Mex War, pro-1850 Compromise and KN Bills, staunch Unionist until Wilmot and Kansas threaten the South. Strongly pro-slavery, backs Breckinridge in 1860, breaks with Stephens in supporting secession, becomes Sec of State for CSA, opposes Sumter and predicts loss of war, but takes to field as General, wound at Antietam, resigns in ’63, attacks Davis, flees to Cuba post war, refuses pardon, but back to law in Ga, dies of severe alcoholism.
Georgia politician, US Senate ’49-49, Gov ’53-57, CSA Senator ’63-65, over 100 slaves, runs as VP on Douglas ticket in 1860, opposed secession but goes with his state.
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