CS Con Stephens, Alexander H. - C.S. Vice President

Alexander Hamilton "Little Ellick" Stephens
Vice President of the Confederate States of America

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Born: February 11, 1812

Birthplace: Crawfordville, Taliaferro County, Georgia

Father: Andrew B. Stephens 1782 - 1826
(Buried: Stephens Cemetery, Crawfordville, Georgia)​

Mother: Margaret Grier Stephens 1786 - 1812
(Buried: Stephens Cemetery, Crawfordville, Georgia)​

Wife: None

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Education:

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1832: Graduated from Franklin College​

Occupation:

School Teacher for eighteen months in Georgia​
Attorney in Crawfordville Georgia​
1836 – 1841: Georgia State Representative​
1842: Georgia State Senator​
1843 – 1859: United States Representative from Georgia​
1859 – 1861: Attorney in Crawfordville, Georgia​
1860: Stephens Democratic Party Presidential Elector​

Civil War Career:

1861: Delegate to Georgia State Secession Convention​
1861: Georgia Delegate to Confederate Provincial Congress​
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1861 – 1865: Vice President of Confederate States of America​
1861: Gave his famous cornerstone Speech in Savannah, Georgia​
1862: Publicly expressed his opposition of the Davis Administration​
1863: CSA Diplomat to Washington, D.C. On Prisoner Exchange​
1864 – 1865: Worked to bring peace between Confederates and USA​
1865: Confederate Commissioner Hampton Roads Conference​
1865: Imprisoned five months in Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, Mass.​


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Occupation after War:
1865 – 1873: Attorney in Crawfordville, Georgia​
1872: Unsuccessful Candidate for United States Senator​

1873 – 1882: United States Representative from Georgia​
1882 – 1883: Governor of Georgia​

Died: March 4, 1883

Place of Death: Atlanta, Georgia

Age at time of Death: 71 years old

Original Burial Place: Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia

Final Burial Place: Liberty Hall Plantation, Crawfordville, Georgia

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He was set to attend a Conference in Washington in 1863 to discuss prisoner exchange and possibly a peaceful settlement if the opportunity arose.But this "Peace Conference" was postponed, delayed, or cancelled due to the Gettysburg Campaign. Plus Lincoln refused to receive Stephens. Was the Hampton Roads Conference almost two years later a continuation of this 1863 conference that never was? Was Stephens Physically in Washington to attend?
 
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With the different things I read, and I know Mr. Stephens was almost continuously ill almost his whole adult life, but being wrapped in blankets, etc and being shrunken in and "cadaverous" I've always pictured him as a Dr Who Dalek in my mind running Jefferson Davis and the whole CSA cabinet.
 
Stephens made his first appearance on the face of a $20.00 (there was no printing on the back) on September 2, 1861 and his image was impossed on the $20 throughout the short life of the Confederacy. All issuse were crude but the first issues were "terribly" crude, he looks angry or upset on the top bill, doesn't he? I thought I had just bought a clipping from a newspaper instead of a real bill.
 
Also the author of A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States (vol. 1 1868, vol. 2 1870), probably the best-argued defense of the constitutionality of the South's secession. (I realize that that may sound like "the best-argued defense of hollow-earth-ism," but the first volume in particular is an impressive performance.)
 
On a recent biography of Thomas Jefferson Foster it was stated that he won an election for a seat in Congress but was denied that seat. It seems a similar thing thing happened to Stephens. He won a seat in the U.S. Senate immediately following the war but was also denied his elected seat due to restrictions on former Confederates.
 
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