Andrew Johnson (1800-1875)
Longest surviving member of Buchanan’s cabinet, he grew up in Maine and was an apprentice printer before running the Paris Jeffersonian newspaper. Moves to DC as clerk in the post office in 1839 and rises through the ranks until being officially named as Postmaster General, serving for 23 days in 1861.
West Point w Davis, Black Hawk War, resigns, Texas plantation, Texas army under Houston, Sec of War for Texas Republic, wounded in duel, Co in Mexican War (Buena Vista), to Bloody Kansas in ’56, Brigadier General Dept of Pacific, Davis gives him #2 rank in CSA heads Army of the West, bleeds to death from leg wound at Shiloh.
Parson Brownlow (1805-1877)
Horatio King (1811-1897)
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Privileged youth on Edgefield SC plantation, to military academy then UVA (dueling incident) the SC College, indifferent student, taverns, off to 2nd Seminole War, back to Edgefield law practice, loses inheritance, wounded in duel with Preston Brooks during ’40 SC Gov campaign , ’41 marries second cousin & moves to Texas, law & state politics, opposes Sam Houston, Tex legislature chooses him for US Senate ’59-61, supports rebellion and expelled, goes to Ft. Sumter & rows boat to meet Union commander & demand surrender, earns him fame, named Brigadier General of Texas Brigade but quickly sacked for drunkenness and shaky nerves, CSA Senate, criticizes Davis, flees to England at end of war, stirs trouble, back to Texas at death.
Politicians/Diplomats
John H. Reagen (1818-1905)
Tennessee-- Statehood Granted: June 1, 1796 State Motto: Agriculture and Commerce
Southwestern States (Continued)
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Surveyor, lawyer, judge, US House as Dem ’57-61, Unionist but goes with Texas, CSA Postmaster, Sec of Treasury, with Davis in flight and capture, US Senate post-war, public ed, Texas giant.
Father in Revolutionary War and owns slave plantation in Va. Flees home at 16 and lives with Cherokees in TN. Heroic service in War of 1812, Jackson links, lawyer, US House ’23-27, TN Gov ’27-29, flees to Mexico after fined for fighting, Texas in ’32, heads Texas Annexation army, defeats Santa Ana in ’36 at San Jacinto (wd), first Prez Republic of Texas ’41, US Senator ’46-59, staunch Unionist and opponent to KN Bill, slavery expansion, but also abolition. Gov of Texas ’59-61, forced out for refusing to join CSA, pro-states rights, but predicts So. loss.
Sam Houston (1793-1863)
Son of a prosperous Connecticut industrialist, he spent many years abroad before being named Ambassador to Belgium by Lincoln. He served there from 1861 to 1869. Afterwards he supports King Leopold II in colonizing the Belgian Congo.
Texas-- Statehood Granted: December 29, 1845 State Motto: Friendship
Henry Sanford (1823-1891)
Virginia lawyer who serves three terms in US House before he is named Minister to France by Buchanan in 1860. Sacked and arrested in August ’61 for negotiating the sale of arms for the Confederacy. Returned to CSA in exchange for Congressman Ely, captured at 1st Bull Run as a spectator. Post war, one term in the US House (1875) from West Virginia.
Charles Faulkner (1806-1884)
Poverty as youth in NC, successful tailor, move to Tenn, self-taught, town politics, buys slave, joins militia, Whig/Dem, US House ’43-53, orator, for Mexican War and anti-Wilmot, Polk tensions, Gov twice ’53-57, public schools and Homestead acts, backs Buck, Senator ’57-62, populist, pro slavery racist, seeks Dem nomination in 1860, pro-Union speech after Lincoln chosen, this sets him up for the VP slot in 1864, then President.
Albert Sidney Johnston (1803-1862)
Orphan in Va, carpenter, Methodist minister after revival meeting, battles with Presby and Baptists, anti-nullification essays and journalism, Knoxville Whig, anti-Jackson pro Clay, shot in fight, loses vs. A. Johnson ’45, temperance, and Know-Nothings, pro-slavery (Bible ordains) to anti later, last pro-Union paper in South, jailed by CSA ’61, celebrity in North, back to Tenn as US wins in state, later Senator and Governor.
Louis T. Wigfall (1816-1874)