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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Thompson , Jacob 1810 -1885 (search)
Thompson, Jacob 1810-1885
Lawyer; born in Caswell county, N. C., May 15, 1810; graduated at the University of North Carolina in 1831.
Admitted to the bar in 1834, he began the practice of law in Chickasaw county, Miss., in 1835.
He was elected to Congress in 1839, and remained in that body until 1851.
For several years he was chairman of the committee on Indian affairs, and he defended his adopted State when she repudiated her bonds.
He was vehemently pro-slavery in his feelings, and was one of the most active disunionists in his State many years before the Civil War. He was Secretary of the Interior under President Buchanan, but resigned, Jan. 7, 1861, and entered into the services of the Confederacy.
He was governor of Mississippi in 1862-64, and was then appointed Confederate commissioner in Canada.
He died in Memphis, Tenn., March 24, 1885.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Toombs , Robert 1810 -1885 (search)
Toombs, Robert 1810-1885
Legislator; born in Washington, Wilkes co., Ga., July 2, 1810; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., in 1828; studied law at the University of Virginia; practised until elected to Congress in 1845; was a captain under General Scott in the Creek War; was several years a member of the Georgia legislature; and remained in Congress until 1853, when he became United States Senator.
He was re-elected in 1859.
In the Senate, on Jan. 7, 1861, following a patriotic speech by Senator Crittenden, of Kentucky, he said: The abolitionists have for long years been sowing dragons' teeth, and they have finally got a crop of armed men. The Union, sir, is dissolved.
That is a fixed fact lying in the way of this discussion, and men may as well hear it. One of your confederates (South Carolina) has already wisely, bravely, boldly, met the public danger and confronted it. She is only ahead and beyond any of her sisters because of her greater facility of action.
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Yates , Richard 1818 -1873 (search)
Yates, Richard 1818-1873
War governor; born in Warsaw, Ky., Jan. 18, 1818.
In early youth he went to Illinois; graduated at Illinois College; studied law, and became eminent in the profession.
He was often a member of the State legislature.
He
Richard Yates. was a member of Congress from 1851 to 1855, and governor of Illinois from 1861 to 1865—a most active war governor during that exciting period.
The legislature of Illinois met on Jan. 7, 1861.
The governor's message to them was a patriotic appeal to his people; and he summed up what he believed to be the public sentiment of Illinois, in the words of President Jackson's toast, given thirty years before: Our federal Union: it must be preserved.
Governor Yates was elected to the United States Senate in 1865, and served therein six years. He died in St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 27, 1873.
His son, Richard, was elected governor of Illinois for the term 1901-