Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, 1812-1883

Former vice-president of the Confederate States of America.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), lawyer, politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America.

Lawyer, journalist, governor of Georgia, U.S. senator and representative from Georgia, and vice president of the Confederate States of America.

E.E. Brown, proprietor of Brown Hotel, Macon, Ga., political center of Georgia.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), lawyer, politician, vice president of the Confederate States of America, and Georgia Governor, born in Wilkes County, Georgia.

Member of Congress from Georgia 1843-1859; vice president of the Confederate States of America; returned to Congress 1873-1882; elected governor of Georgia 1882.

C.S.A. Vice-President.

Alexander H. Stephens was vice president of the Confederate States of America. His brother, Linton Stephens, was a lieutenant colonel of the 15th Georgia Regiment, Confederate States of America.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883) was a lawyer and politician born in Wilkes County, Georgia. He served as a United States congressman, vice president of the Confederate States of America (1861-1865), and Governor of Georgia (1882-1883).

Most famous for serving as the vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Hamilton Stephens was a near-constant force in state and national politics for a half century. born near Crawfordville, in Taliaferro County, on February 11, 1812, to Margaret Grier and Andrew Baskins Stephens, the young Stephens was orphaned at fourteen, which intensified his already melancholic disposition. He graduated from Franklin College (later the University of Georgia) in 1832 and gained admittance to the bar two years later. There followed a steady and uninterrupted rise to political prominence.

Statesman and author.

Vice President of the Confederate States of America and legislator and governor of Georgia.

American statesman.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens served as vice president of the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War, as a U.S. congressman before and after the war, and as governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883. Born in poverty in Crawfordville, Ga., he acquired his education through the generosity of several benefactors. Following a brief stint as a schoolteacher, Stephens turned to the study of law and served for some years as a successful lawyer in Crawfordville. He was elected as a Whig to a U.S. congressional seat in 1843 and quickly rose to prominence as one of the foremost southern Whigs, though he later left the party to join the Constitutional Union Party and, in 1855, the Democratic Party. While in Congress he was instrumental in getting the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed. Though he initially opposed Georgia's secession from the Union, he later joined the secessionists and was elected vice-president of the Confederacy in 1861. Following the war, he served several terms as a U.S. congressman, resigning from Congress in 1882, when he was elected governor of Georgia.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens, born in Wilkes County, Georgia, served as the Vice-President of the Confederate States of America and as a congressman for the State of Georgia after the Civil War.

Alexander H. Stephens was a Georgia lawyer, politician and Vice President of the Confederate States of America. He lived from 1812-1883.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens, lawyer, legislator, and Georgia governor, was born 11 February 1812, in Wilkes County, Georgia, and died 4 March 1883, in Atlanta, Georgia. Alexander H. Stephens graduated from the University of Georgia (1832); was admitted to the Georgia bar (1834); served as a Georgia legislator (1836-1843); served as a U.S. legislator from Georgia (1843-1859; 1873-1882); and joined the Democratic Party (1852). Stephens was a spokesman for Southern interests, a champion of slavery and states rights, and became vice-president of the Confederacy (1861), though he opposed many of the policies of the new government and attempted peace negotiations with Lincoln (1863; 1865). He was elected governor of Georgia (1882), authored two books (1870, 1872), and was editor of the SOUTHERN SUN, an Atlanta newspaper. John Alexander Stephens, the son of Alexander Stephens's brother, John Lindsay Stephens, died in 1887. John A. Stephens served in the Confederate Army with the 15th Georgia Regiment, practiced law in Crawfordville and Atlanta, Georgia, where he was a partner of Lucius J. Gartrell, and was Adjutant General of Georgia (1883-1886).

Alexander Hamilton Stephens was a lawyer, politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, and Georgia Governor. He was born in Wilkes County, Georgia.

Stephens represented Georgia in Congress from 1843 to 1859. In 1861, he was elected vice-president of the Confederate States of America. He was elected governor of Georgia in 1882 and served until his death in 1883.

Stephens, a Georgia lawyer and politician, among other posts served in the U. S. Congress (1843-1859, 1873-1882) and as vice president of the Confederacy.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), lawyer, politician, Vice-President of the Confederate States of America, and Georgia Governor, born in Wilkes County, Georgia.

American politician.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883), lawyer, politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, and Georgia Governor, born in Wilkes County, Georgia.

"Most famous for serving as the vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Hamilton Stephens was a near-constant force in state and national politics for a half century. Born near Crawfordville [Georgia], in Taliaferro County, on February 11, 1812, to Margaret Grier and Andrew Baskins Stephens, the young Stephens was orphaned at fourteen, which intensified his already melancholic disposition. He graduated from Franklin College (later the University of Georgia) in 1832 and gained admittance to the bar two years later. There followed a steady and uninterrupted rise to political prominence...Georgians returned Stephens to the House of Representatives in 1877, and he served there until 1882. That same year he was elected governor of the state but died in office on March 4, 1883." - "Alexander Stephens." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved September 4, 2008)

Alexander H. Stephens was vice-president of the Confederate States of America.

Alexander Stephens (1812-1883), lawyer, journalist, author, statesman, was elected vice president of the Confederate States (1861-1865). After the war, he was elected to U.S. Senate from Georgia, but never presented his credentials. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1873-1 882), and as governor of Georgia (1882-1883).

Alexander Hamilton Stephens was vice president of the Confederate States of America.

Vice-President of Confederate States and Governor of Georgia.

"Most famous for serving as the vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Hamilton Stephens was a near-constant force in state and national politics for a half century. Born near Crawfordville [Georgia], in Taliaferro County, on February 11, 1812, to Margaret Grier and Andrew Baskins Stephens, the young Stephens was orphaned at fourteen, which intensified his already melancholic disposition. He graduated from Franklin College (later the University of Georgia) in 1832 and gained admittance to the bar two years later. There followed a steady and uninterrupted rise to political prominence...Georgians returned Stephens to the House of Representatives in 1877, and he served there until 1882. That same year he was elected governor of the state but died in office on March 4, 1883." - "Alexander Stephens." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved September 4, 2008)

Julius L. Brown (1848-1910) was the son of Joseph E. Brown and brother of Joseph M. Brown. He received an A.B in 1868 and an A.M. in 1869 from the University of Georgia and a B.L. from the Harvard College Law Department. -- "Brown, Julius L., b. 1848." University of Georgia Centennial Alumni Catalog. http://dlg.galib.uga.edu/centennialcatalog/html (Retrieved June 26, 2009)

Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883) was a lawyer and a politician born in Wilkes County, Georgia. He served as a United States congressman, vice president of the Confederate States of America (1861-1865), and Governor of Georgia (1882-1883).

Robert Cunningham Daniel was born on 31 Oct 1807 in Wilkes County, Georgia. He died on 1 Dec 1862 in Penfield, Greene County, Georgia. He married Emily G Milner on 23 Jun 1831 in Oglethorpe County, Georgia. Currently, Globe Ridgebacks, located in Philomath, Georgia, operates out of the original home of Robert Cunningham Daniel. Established circa 1833, the house was built for, Robert Cunningham Daniel, and has remained in the family. His family enjoyed Shakespeare, and the house was named for the Globe Theatre in London.

"A mid-nineteenth-century politician, Howell Cobb served as congressman (1843-51; 1855-57), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1849-51), governor of Georgia (1851-53), and secretary of the treasury (1857-60). Following Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861, he served as president of the Provisional Confederate Congress (1861-62) and a major general of the Confederate army." - "Howell Cobb." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved July 25, 2008)

"Most famous for serving as the vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander Hamilton Stephens was a near-constant force in state and national politics for a half century. Born near Crawfordville [Georgia], in Taliaferro County, on February 11, 1812, to Margaret Grier and Andrew Baskins Stephens, the young Stephens was orphaned at fourteen, which intensified his already melancholic disposition. He graduated from Franklin College (later the University of Georgia) in 1832 and gained admittance to the bar two years later. There followed a steady and uninterrupted rise to political prominence...Georgians returned Stephens to the House of Representatives in 1877, and he served there until 1882. That same year he was elected governor of the state but died in office on March 4, 1883." - "Alexander Stephens." New Georgia Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org (Retrieved September 4, 2008)

Biographical Note

Mrs. Darling was born in New Hampshire in 1840, a descendant of Henry Adams who settled in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1636. She married Col. Edward Irving Darling, 22 years her senior, in 1860, and went with him to live at his Louisiana home. He died of wounds received in battle, December 2, 1863. Her only son was Edward Erving Darling, a minor musician-composer, who died July 13, 1894. Mrs. Darling suffered from repeated attacks of malarial fever and, after 1876, from deafness. Her years of widowhood were spent in writing Mrs. Darling's Letters, or Memoirs of the Civil War A Social Diplomat and other books.

From 1889 to 1896 her major interests and efforts were devoted to the founding of women's patriotic societies. Mrs. Darling's obsession for organizing and ruling patriotic societies, and her willingness to abandon one when her opinion or desires were thwarted, is illustrated by the rapid succession with which the societies followed each other: Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) founded October 11, 1890; Daughters of the Revolution (D.R.) founded June 18, 1891; Daughters of the United States of the War of 1812, founded January 8, 1892; founded because of disagreement over policies of the D. A. R., policies adopted over the protest of Mrs. Darling. This collection is composed almost entirely of letters written to her during these years of controversy. There are some delightful, pithy and well-written letters in the group.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens was born in Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Georgia on February 11, 1812 to Andrew B. and Margaret Grier Stephens. He graduated from Franklin College (later the University of Georgia) in 1832, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society. He taught school for the next eighteen months while pursuing legal studies and passed the bar in Georgia in 1834. Stephens maintained a successful law practice for thirty-two years while simultaneously serving as an elected official in both state and federal political realms and as Vice President of the Confederate States of America. He died in 1883.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens was born in Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Georgia on February 11, 1812 to Andrew B. and Margaret Grier Stephens. He graduated from Franklin College (later the University of Georgia) in 1832, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society. He taught school for the next eighteen months while pursuing legal studies and passed the bar in Georgia in 1834. Stephens maintained a successful law practice for thirty-two years while simultaneously serving as an elected official in both state and federal political realms and as Vice President of the Confederate States of America. He died in 1883.