Author: Henry Stuart Foote
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Speech of Hon. H. S. Foote, of Mississippi, on Establishing Governments for California, Deseret, New Mexico, and Jacinto
Author: Henry Stuart Foote
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 16
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The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis
Author: Ben Wynne
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807170143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Regarded as one of the most vocal, well-traveled, and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, antebellum politician Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast array of pivotal events. Despite Foote’s unique mark on history, until now no comprehensive biography existed. Ben Wynne fills this gap in his examination of the life of this gifted and volatile public figure in The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis: The Political Life of Henry S. Foote, Southern Unionist. An eyewitness to many of the historical events of his lifetime, Foote, an opinionated native Virginian, helped to raise money for the Texas Revolution, provided political counsel for the Lone Star Republic’s leadership before annexation, and published a 400-page history of the region. In 1847, Mississippi elected him to the Senate, where he promoted cooperation with the North during the Compromise of 1850. One of the South’s most outspoken Unionists, he infuriated many of his southern colleagues with his explosive temperament and unorthodox ideas that quickly established him as a political outsider. His temper sometimes led to physical altercations, including at least five duels, pulling a gun on fellow senator Thomas Hart Benton during a legislative session, and engaging in run-ins with other politicians—notably a fistfight with his worst political enemy, Jefferson Davis. He left the Senate in 1851 to run for governor of Mississippi on a pro-Union platform and defeated Davis by a small margin. Several years later, Foote moved to Nashville, was elected to the Confederate Congress after Tennessee seceded, and continued his political sparring with the Confederate president. From Foote’s failed attempt to broker an unauthorized peace agreement with the Lincoln government and his exile to Europe to the publication of his personal memoir and his appointment as director of the United States mint in New Orleans, Wynne constructs an entertaining and nuanced portrait of a singular man who constantly challenged the conventions of southern and national politics.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807170143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Regarded as one of the most vocal, well-traveled, and controversial statesmen of the nineteenth century, antebellum politician Henry Stuart Foote played a central role in a vast array of pivotal events. Despite Foote’s unique mark on history, until now no comprehensive biography existed. Ben Wynne fills this gap in his examination of the life of this gifted and volatile public figure in The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis: The Political Life of Henry S. Foote, Southern Unionist. An eyewitness to many of the historical events of his lifetime, Foote, an opinionated native Virginian, helped to raise money for the Texas Revolution, provided political counsel for the Lone Star Republic’s leadership before annexation, and published a 400-page history of the region. In 1847, Mississippi elected him to the Senate, where he promoted cooperation with the North during the Compromise of 1850. One of the South’s most outspoken Unionists, he infuriated many of his southern colleagues with his explosive temperament and unorthodox ideas that quickly established him as a political outsider. His temper sometimes led to physical altercations, including at least five duels, pulling a gun on fellow senator Thomas Hart Benton during a legislative session, and engaging in run-ins with other politicians—notably a fistfight with his worst political enemy, Jefferson Davis. He left the Senate in 1851 to run for governor of Mississippi on a pro-Union platform and defeated Davis by a small margin. Several years later, Foote moved to Nashville, was elected to the Confederate Congress after Tennessee seceded, and continued his political sparring with the Confederate president. From Foote’s failed attempt to broker an unauthorized peace agreement with the Lincoln government and his exile to Europe to the publication of his personal memoir and his appointment as director of the United States mint in New Orleans, Wynne constructs an entertaining and nuanced portrait of a singular man who constantly challenged the conventions of southern and national politics.
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
Author: Avero Publications Limited
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907977315
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780907977315
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Life of Stephen Arnold Douglas
Author: Frank Everett Stevens
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Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
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Category : Legislators
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
A History of the United States
Author: Charles Kendall Adams
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
A History of the United States is a schoolbook by Charles Kendall Adams. It was adopted nationally as a high school course and covers mostly the wars on US soil throughout history.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
A History of the United States is a schoolbook by Charles Kendall Adams. It was adopted nationally as a high school course and covers mostly the wars on US soil throughout history.
Official Register of the United States
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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History of California: 1542-1800
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
This work examines California's history from 1520 to 1890. It also contains a ethnology of the state's population, economics, and politics.
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
This work examines California's history from 1520 to 1890. It also contains a ethnology of the state's population, economics, and politics.
Wixom Family History
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Robert Wixam (d.1686) emigrated in 1630 from England to Massachusetts. He lived in Plymouth by 1643, and moved to Eastham in 1665. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Wixom) and relatives lived in New England, New York, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, California and elsewhere. Some descendants became Mormons, living in Utah, Idaho and elsewhere. Other descendants immigrated to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.
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Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Robert Wixam (d.1686) emigrated in 1630 from England to Massachusetts. He lived in Plymouth by 1643, and moved to Eastham in 1665. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Wixom) and relatives lived in New England, New York, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, California and elsewhere. Some descendants became Mormons, living in Utah, Idaho and elsewhere. Other descendants immigrated to Ontario and elsewhere in Canada.
Index to Bulletins 1 - 100 of the Bureau of American Ethnology
Author: Biren Bonnerjea
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
The Way to the West
Author: Elliott West
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826316530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826316530
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.