William Lowndes Yancey

William Lowndes Yancey ( born August 10, 1814 near the waterfalls of the Ogeechee River, Warren County, Georgia, † July 27, 1863 in Montgomery, Alabama ) was an American journalist, politician, orator, diplomat and lawyer and a leader of the secessionist movement.

Career

William Lowndes Yancey was the son of Benjamin Cudworth Yancey, a lawyer from South Carolina, and Caroline Bird. He attended Williams College and studied law in Greenville, South Carolina after that. His admission to the bar he received in 1834 and initially worked thereafter as a lawyer in Greenville. In 1836 he moved to Cahawba into Alabama and initially worked as a cotton planter and as editor of newspapers and Cahawba Cahawba Democrat Gazette. In 1839 he moved to Wetumpka, also in Alabama, around and took there his career as a lawyer again.

In 1841 he was elected as an MP in the House of Representatives of Alabama, 1843, he was in the Senate of Alabama operates. December 2, 1844 to September 1, 1846, he practiced during the 28th and after his re-election during the 29th Congress legislature from his office as a Democratic member in succession to the retiring parliamentarian Dixon Hall Lewis in the House of Representatives of the United States. As a proponent of slavery, he often got into arguments with deputies from the more northern states.

After retiring, he moved to Montgomery and acquired there a farm with dairy farming. It was in 1848, 1856 and 1860, a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions. On January 7, 1861, he took a leading part in the meeting in Montgomery Constituent Assembly. His sentence was known as " The man and the hour have met. We now hope did prosperity, honor, and victory await his administration. " Which he in his introductory speech on the occasion of the inauguration of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, on 18 used in February 1861.

As chairman of a commission, he traveled in 1861 on behalf of Jefferson Davis to Europe to introduce the idea of the Confederate States to the governments of England and France. On 21 February 1862 he was elected to the first Senate of the Confederate States.

William Lowndes Yancey died on July 27, 1863 in his home near Montgomery and was buried in the Oakland Cemetery.