Record of the vote in the Virginia Convention on the Ordinance of Secession, 1861 April 17.

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Record of the vote in the Virginia Convention on the Ordinance of Secession, 1861 April 17.

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The official record of the vote, taken five days after the firing on Ft. Sumter and two days after Lincoln's call for troops, tallied 88 "yea" and 55 "no." Among the "Yea" voters were former U.S. President John Tyler; University of Virginia law professor James P. Holcombe; Thomas Jefferson's grandson and future Confederate Secretary of War George W. Randolph; future Confederate and U.S. Congressman John Goode, Jr., former U.S. cabinet member William B. Preston, and former governor Henry A. Wise. Among the "No" voters were U.S. Representative Sherrard Clemens, future Confederate General Jubal Early; future West Virginia Congressmen William G. Brown, Chester D. Hubbard and Waitman Willey, former Congressmen and Cabinet Secretary Alexander H.H. Stuart, and future Virginia Unionist Senator John S. Carlile.

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