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See also:STEPHENS, See also:ALEXANDER See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
HAMILTON (1812-1883) , See also:American statesman, See also:vice-See also:president of the Confederate States during the See also:Civil See also:War, was See also:born in Wilkes (now Taliaferro) See also:county, See also:Georgia, on the 11th of See also:February 1812. He was a weak and sickly See also:child of poor parents, and from his See also:sixth to his fifteenth See also:year, when he was See also:left an See also:orphan, he worked on a See also:farm. After his See also:father's See also:death he went to live with an See also:uncle in See also:Warren county. The See also:superintendent of the See also:local See also:Sunday school sent him to an See also:academy at See also:Washington, Wilkes county, for one year and in the following year (1828) he was sent by the Georgia Educational Society to See also:Franklin See also:College (university of Georgia), where he graduated in 1832. Deciding not to enter the See also:ministry, he paid back the See also:money advanced by the society. He was a schoolmaster for about two years, and then, after studying See also:law for less than four months, was admitted to the See also:bar in 1834. Although delicate in See also:health, his success at the bar was immediate and remarkable. In 1836 he was elected to the Georgia See also:House of Representatives after a See also:campaign in which he was vigorously opposed because he had attacked the See also:doctrine of See also:nullification, and because he had opposed all extra-legal steps against. the abolitionists, He was annually re-elected until 1841; in 1842 he was elected to the See also:state See also:Senate, and in the following year, on the Whig See also:ticket, to the See also:National House of Representatives. In this last See also:body he urged the See also:annexation of See also:Texas, chiefly as a means of achieving more See also:power for the See also:South in See also:Congress. He was denounced as a traitor to his party because of his support of annexation, but he later became the See also:leader of the Whig opposition to the war with See also:Mexico. He vigorously supported the See also:Compromise See also:Measures in r85o, and continued to See also:act with the Whigs of the See also:North until they, in 1852, nominated See also:General See also:Winfield See also:Scott for the See also:presidency without Scott's endorsement of the Compromise. Stephens and other Whigs of the South then See also:chose See also:Daniel See also:Webster, but a little later they joined the Democrats. In 1854 Stephens helped to secure the passage of the See also:Kansas-See also:Nebraska See also:Bill. Before the Georgia legislature in See also:November 186o, and again in that state's See also:secession See also:convention in See also:January 1861, he strongly opposed secession, but when Georgia seceded he " followed his state," assisted in forming the new See also:government, and was elected vice-president of the Confederate States. He greatly weakened the position of the Confederacy by a speech delivered at See also:Savannah (See also:March 21, 1861) in which he declared that See also:slavery was its corner-See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone. Throughout the war, too, he was so intensely concerned about states' rights and civil See also:liberty that he opposed the exercise of
extra-constitutional war See also:powers by President See also:Jefferson See also:Davis lest the freedom for which the South was fighting should be destroyed. His policy was to preserve constitutional government in the South and strengthen the See also:anti-war party in the North by convincing it that the See also:Lincoln See also:administration had abandoned such government; to the same end he urged, in 1864, the unconditional See also:discharge of Federal prisoners in the South. Stephens headed the Confederate See also:commission to the See also:peace See also:conference at See also:Hampton Roads in February 1865. In the following May, after the fall of the Confederacy, he was arrested at his See also:home and taken to Fort Warren, in See also:Boston See also:harbour, where he was confined until the 12th of See also:October. He accepted the result of the war as a See also:practical See also:settlement of the question of secession, exercised a beneficent See also:influence on the negroes of his See also:section, and promoted reconciliation between the North and the South. In 1866 he was elected to the See also:United States Senate, but was not permitted to take his seat. He was a representative in Congress, however, from 1873 to 1882, and was See also:governor of Georgia in 1882–1883, dying in See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office, at See also:Atlanta, on the 4th of March 1883. He was remarkable for both his moral and See also:physical courage, and in politics was notable for his See also:independence of party. From 1871 to 1873 he edited the Atlanta Daily See also:Sun, and he published A Constitutional View of the See also:Late War between the States (2 vols., 1868–187o), perhaps the best statement of the See also:southern position with reference to state See also:sovereignty and secession; The Reviewers Reviewed (1872), a supplement to the preceding See also:work; and A Compendium of the See also:History of the United States (1875; new ed., 1883).
See See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Pendleton, Alexander H. Stephens (Philadelphiia, 1908) ; R. M. See also:Johnston and W. H. See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne, See also:Life of Alexander H. Stephens (See also:Philadelphia, 1878 ; new ed., 1883) ; and See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Cleveland, Alexander H. Stephens in Public and Private, with Letters and Speeches (Philadelphia, 1866).
End of Article: STEPHENS, ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1812-1883)
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