Alexander Hamilton Stephens: Confederate States Vice President

Alexander Hamilton Stephens

Alexander Hamilton Stephens was a politician who served as the vice president of the Confederate States during the American Civil War. Although initially cautious about secession, he was elected vice president upon Georgia's withdrawal and delivered the Cornerstone Speech. After the inauguration, he clashed with President Davis over centralization. Following postwar detention, he returned to politics, serving as a U.S. Representative and Governor of Georgia, playing a major role in Reconstruction-era Southern politics and federal reunification.

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Year	Alexander Hamilton Stephens
1812	Birth of Alexander Hamilton Stephens
1832	Imprisonment at Fort Warren (Age: 19 years old)
1836	Graduation from Franklin College (Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Age: 23 years old)
1843	Election to the Georgia House of Representatives (Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Age: 30 years old)
1846	Mexican-American War (Age: 33 years old)
1850	Election to the United States House of Representatives (Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Age: 37 years old)
1854	Involvement in the Compromise of 1850 (Age: 41 years old)
1860	Marriage (John Finis Davis, Varina Anne Howell, Age: 47 years old)
1861	American Civil War (Age: 48 years old) Support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act (Age: 48 years old) Assumption of Office as Vice President of the Confederate States (Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Age: 48 years old) Opposition to Georgia Secession and Decision to Secede (Age: 49 years old)
1862	Cornerstone Speech (Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Age: 49 years old)
1863	Involvement in Drafting the Confederate Constitution (Age: 50 years old)
1865	Political Conflict with Jefferson Davis (Age: 52 years old) Hampton Roads Conference (Age: 53 years old)
1866	Promotion of Peace Negotiations (Age: 53 years old)
1868	Postwar Election to the Senate and Refusal of Seating (Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Age: 55 years old)
1873	Authoring "A Constitutional View of the Late War between the States" (Age: 60 years old)
1882	Return to the United States House of Representatives (Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Age: 70 years old)
1883	Death of Alexander Hamilton Stephens (Age: 71 years old)
Unknown	Assumption of Office as Governor of Georgia (Alexander Hamilton Stephens)

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Key Confederate Officers	Thomas Jonathan Jackson James Longstreet Joseph Egleston Johnston Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard Braxton Bragg John Bell Hood Jubal Anderson Early Nathan Bedford Forrest John Brown Gordon
The Lee family	Robert E. Lee George Washington Custis Lee William Henry Fitzhugh Lee Fitzhugh Lee Robert Edward Lee Jr.
Southern politician	Jefferson Finis Davis Alexander Hamilton Stephens Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter John Cabell Breckinridge Judah Philip Benjamin John Henninger Reagan Wade Hampton III Francis Richard Lubbock Luke Pryor Blackburn Joseph Emerson Brown Alfred Holt Colquitt James Lawson Kemper Zebulon Baird Vance

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens: Confederate States Vice President