Va bar, moves to Mo, runs hotel, pro-Mormon legal work, state then US House in ’46 as Dem, Mexican War, BG wins at Santa Cruz, returns as hero, Mo Governor ’53-7, builds state, Unionist until Lyon and Blair seize military camp, joins South, Wilson’s Creek win, rival of McCulloch, MG at Pea Ridge loss, Davis turns on him, fights to end, Mexico exile colony, dies in St. Louis.
Missouri (Continued)
Georgia-- Statehood Granted: January 2, 1788 State Motto: Wisdom, Justice, Moderation
Martin Crawford (1820-1883)
Francis Blair, Sr. (1791-1876)
Law, state solicitor general, anti-nullification, US House ’43-51 as Whig, Hs Speaker ’49, pro slavery and 1850 Compromise as pro-union Dem, Ga Governor ’51, Sec Treasury w Buchanan, finally for secession, CSA Congress, MG army, 7 Days, Antietam, Sherman burns his plantation, vs. Lee on black soldiers, pardoned, back to law.
Border States (Continued)
Howell Cobb (1815-1868)
Va. born, Hampton-Sydney College, law, moves to MO ’18, prosecutor then MO Sec of State ’24, slave holder but also defends slaves and joins American Colonization Society, in ’27 marries SC woman, elected to state Supreme Court as Whig ’46, hears Dred Scott case & dissents, favoring freedom based on “once free, always free,” moves to Pa until ’61 when MO torn apart over secession, brother-in-law Edward Bates (Atty Gen for Lincoln) convinces him to return to MO & try to keep it in the Union, he succeeds & is named Gov by a Constitutional Convention, he supports law & order during the war & gradual emancipation vs. Fremont’s decree in ’61, health fails & he dies in ’64.
Moves from Va to Ky where father is state atty gen, Transylvania College, lawyer but never practices owing to vocal defect, into journalism and politics, switches from Clay to Jackson, editor Washington Globe (AJ organ) ’30, member of “Kitchen Cabinet” after “Eaton Affair” resignations, political shaker, opposes expansion of slavery (though he owns) as Free Soiler ’48, moves to Republicans in opposition to Kansas-Nebraska Act ’54, returns to Dems post war when Radical Republicans punish South. Two famous sons: FP Blair Jr (MO) & Montgomery (Ky. and Lincoln’s Postmaster).
Hamilton Gamble (1798-1864)
Gratz Brown (1726-1885)
Southeastern States
Sterling Price (1809-1867)
Photography Book
Politicians/Diplomats
Famous political operative father, Princeton, lawyer in St. Louis, enlists as Private in Mexican War, friend of Thomas Benton.
Political relatives in Ky, Transylvania College, Yale, to St. Louis, lawyer, joins anti-slavery Dem forces in MO including his cousin Francis Blair, Jr. and Thomas Benton, state house ’52-58, edits Missouri Democrat paper ’54-59, permanent limp after wound in duel with pro-slavery district atty of St. Louis ’56, starts Free Soil Party in state ’57, then Republican Party, helps keep MO in Union ’61, Col-4th US Reserves ’61-63, US Senator ’63-69, wants Emancipation Proc to free all slaves even in MO, supports Fremont over Lincoln ’64, strong pro-black stances, Guv ’71-73, helps form anti-Grant Liberal Republicans Party.
Francis Blair, Jr. (1821-1875)
Lawyer, judge, anti-Calhoun, US House Dem until secession, CSA Congress, commissioner to US, then Col-Ga Cavalry, Murfreesboro, post-war Supreme Court judge in Ga.