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About alexander stephen

Politician alexander stephen was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on February 11, 1812. He dies at the age of 71, on March 4, 1883.

Lifelong American politician from Georgia who opposed secession but still served as the vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, and later as the 50th governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883.

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alexander stephen was born in the Zodiac sign Aquarius (The Water-Bearer), and 1812 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Monkey (猴).

After graduating from Franklin college, later the University of Georgia, Stephens became a practicing attorney. He entered politics in 1836, when he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. In 1843, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He started off as a Whig, then became a Unionist, then switched to the Democratic party. As the Civil War approached, he opposed the South seceding from the Union but defended slavery. (By the time the war began, he owned 34 slaves.).

Achievement of alexander stephen

He never married, was sickly throughout his life, and suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and a pinched nerve in his back.

alexander stephen's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

He has no known direct descendants, but in 2017 his great-great-great grandnephews, brothers Alexander M. Stephens and Brendan Stephens, in a letter to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and the state Legislature and published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, wrote that "Confederate monuments need to come down". They also told a reporter that they wanted Stephens' statues moved to a museum, "not to have it 'wiped away' but to have it contextualized so that someone might actually learn something from it".

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As vice president of the Confederacy, he actually served eight days more in office than CSA president Politician Jefferson Davis. In 1863, he and Stonewall Jackson and Other Robert E. Lee tried to meet with President US President Abraham Lincoln to exchange prisoners, but the Union's victory at Gettysburg, the administration refused to meet with them. After the Civil War, he was arrested for treason and imprisoned for five months. And despite their being restrictions on former Confederates serving in office, Stephens was elected back into the U.S. House of Representatives in 1873. And re-elected in 1874, 1876, 1878, and 1880.

alexander stephen Income & Net worth

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Latest information about alexander stephen updated on March 10 2023.