Author: Jeff DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Jeff Davis, Governor and United States Senator
Author: Jeff DavisThe Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis
Author: Ben WynnePublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807170143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Regarded as one of the most vocal, well-traveled, and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, antebellum politician Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast array of pivotal events. Despite Foote’s unique mark on history, until now no comprehensive biography existed. Ben Wynne fills this gap in his examination of the life of this gifted and volatile public figure in The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis: The Political Life of Henry S. Foote, Southern Unionist. An eyewitness to many of the historical events of his lifetime, Foote, an opinionated native Virginian, helped to raise money for the Texas Revolution, provided political counsel for the Lone Star Republic’s leadership before annexation, and published a 400-page history of the region. In 1847, Mississippi elected him to the Senate, where he promoted cooperation with the North during the Compromise of 1850. One of the South’s most outspoken Unionists, he infuriated many of his southern colleagues with his explosive temperament and unorthodox ideas that quickly established him as a political outsider. His temper sometimes led to physical altercations, including at least five duels, pulling a gun on fellow senator Thomas Hart Benton during a legislative session, and engaging in run-ins with other politicians—notably a fistfight with his worst political enemy, Jefferson Davis. He left the Senate in 1851 to run for governor of Mississippi on a pro-Union platform and defeated Davis by a small margin. Several years later, Foote moved to Nashville, was elected to the Confederate Congress after Tennessee seceded, and continued his political sparring with the Confederate president. From Foote’s failed attempt to broker an unauthorized peace agreement with the Lincoln government and his exile to Europe to the publication of his personal memoir and his appointment as director of the United States mint in New Orleans, Wynne constructs an entertaining and nuanced portrait of a singular man who constantly challenged the conventions of southern and national politics.
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Senators of the United States
Author: Diane B. BoylePublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
S. Doc. 103-34. Compiled by Jo Anne McCormick Quatannens, Diane B. Boyle, editorial assistant, prepared under the direction of Kelly D. Johnston, Secretary of the Senate. Lists scholarly works that profile the lives and legislative service of senators and their autobiographies and other published works.
Senators of the United States
Author: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Author: Jefferson DavisCentennial History of Arkansas
Author: Dallas Tabor HerndonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
Book Description
Correspondence Between Governor Brown and President Davis
Author: Georgia. Governor (1857-1865 : Brown)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Draft
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Wild Ass of the Ozarks
Author: Raymond ArsenaultPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Jefferson Davis, American
Author: William J. CooperPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0375725423
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
From a distinguished historian of the American South comes this thoroughly human portrait of the complex man at the center of our nation's most epic struggle. Jefferson Davis initially did not wish to leave the Union—as the son of a veteran of the American Revolution and as a soldier and senator, he considered himself a patriot. William J. Cooper shows us how Davis' initial reluctance turned into absolute commitment to the Confederacy. He provides a thorough account of Davis' life, both as the Confederate President and in the years before and after the war. Elegantly written and impeccably researched, Jefferson Davis, American is the definitive examination of one of the most enigmatic figures in our nation's history.