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Preston Brooks • Was a Democratic Congressman from South Carolina, known for severely beating Senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate with a cane in response to an insult. His first cousin, Matthew Butler, was a Confederate general. August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857 • South Carolinians sent Brooks dozens of brand new canes, with one bearing the phrase, "Good job." Jefferson Davis • Was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War; serving as the President for its entire history. • Was the highest political officer in the Confederacy. June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889 Roger Taney • Was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding that office from 1836 until his death in 1864, and was the first Roman Catholic to hold that office or sit on the Supreme Court of the United States. He was also the eleventh United States Attorney General. March 17, 1777 – October 12, 1864 • Among Taney's opinions as attorney general, two revealed his stand on slavery: one supported South Carolina's law prohibiting free Blacks from entering the state, and one argued that Blacks could not be citizens. In 1833, as secretary of the Treasury, • Taney ordered an end to the deposit of Federal money in the Second Bank of the United States, an act which killed the institution. John Breckinridge • was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky • Breckinridge entered the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War as a brigadier general and soon became a major general, originally commanding the 1st Kentucky Brigade, nicknamed the Orphan Brigade. January 16, 1821 – May 17, 1875 Edmund Ruffin • was a farmer and slaveholder, a Confederate soldier, and an 1850s political activist. • As the sectional hostilities which led to the Civil War grew in the 1850s, Ruffin left Virginia for South Carolina, as he was angry that Virginia had not been the first state to secede from the Union. Ruffin fired one of the first shots on Fort Sumter. He was also the first one to enter Fort Sumter after it fell. January 5, 1794 – June 17, 1865 Alexander Stephens • Was an American politician from Georgia. He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. He also served as a U.S. Representative from Georgia (both before the Civil War and after Reconstruction) and as the 50th Governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883. February 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883 • As his wealth increased, Stephens began acquiring land and slaves. By the time of the Civil War, Stephens owned 34 slaves and several thousand acres. Nathan Bedford Forrest • Was a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. He is remembered both as a selfeducated, innovative cavalry leader during the war and as a leading southern advocate in the postwar years. • He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret vigilante organization which launched a reign of terrorism against blacks and Republicans during Reconstruction in the South. July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877 Franklin Pierce • An American politician and lawyer, was the 14th President of the United States, serving from 1853 to 1857. To date, he is the only President from New Hampshire. • The greatest challenge to the country's equilibrium during the Pierce administration, though, was the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. It repealed the Missouri Compromise and reopened the question of slavery in the West. November 23, 1804 – October 8, 1869 James Buchanan • Was the 15th President of the United States from 1857–1861 and the last to be born in the 18th century. To date he is the only president from the state of Pennsylvania and the only 'life-long bachelor.‘ • Buchanan, like many of his time, was torn between his interest in the expansion of the country for the benefit of all, and the insistence of the people settling the expanded areas to all of their rights, including some rights not beneficial to all, i.e. slavery. • April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868 On the resulting spread of slavery, through unconditional expansion, he stated: "I feel a strong repugnance by any act of mine to extend the present limits of the Union over a new slaveholding territory." For instance, he hoped the acquisition of Texas would "be the means of limiting, not enlarging, the dominion of slavery." Robert Toombs • Was an American political leader, United States Senator from Georgia, 1st Secretary of State of the Confederacy, and a Confederate general in the Civil War. • Toombs objected to halting the spread of slavery into the territories of California and New Mexico. July 2, 1810 – December 15, 1885 • Toombs favored the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution, and the English Bill (1858). John H. Reagan • Was a leading 19th century American politician from the U.S. state of Texas. A Democrat, Reagan resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives when Texas seceded from the Union to join the Confederate States of America. He served in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis as Postmaster General. After the Confederate defeat, he called for cooperation with the federal government and thus became unpopular, but returned to public office when his predictions of harsh treatment for resistance were proved correct. October 8, 1818 – March 6, 1905 • President Jefferson Davis picked Reagan to head the new Confederate States of America Post-office Department. He was an able administrator, presiding over the only cabinet department that functioned well during the war.