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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioClement Laird VALLANDIGHAM
(1820-1871)
VALLANDIGHAM, Clement
Laird, (uncle of John A. McMahon), a Representative from
Ohio; born in New Lisbon, Columbiana County, Ohio, July 29, 1820;
attended a classical school conducted by his father and Jefferson
College, Canonsburg, Pa.; moved to Maryland and for two years was a
preceptor in Union Academy at Snow Hill; moved to New Lisbon, Ohio,
in 1840; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1842 and commenced
practice in Dayton, Ohio; member of the State house of
representatives in 1845 and 1846; edited the Western Empire
1847-1849; was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1852 to
the Thirty-third Congress and in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth
Congress; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1856,
1864, and 1868; successfully contested as a Democrat the election
of Lewis D. Campbell to the Thirty-fifth Congress; reelected to the
Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh Congresses and served from May 25,
1858, to March 3, 1863; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; arrested by the Union military
authorities in 1863 for treasonable utterance and banished to the
Confederate States; went from Wilmington, N.C., to Bermuda and
thence to Canada, where he remained until June 1864; during his
exile was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio
in 1863; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States
Senate in 1869; died in Lebanon, Ohio, June 17, 1871; interment in
Woodland Cemetery, Dayton, Ohio.
Bibliography
Klement, Frank L. The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham
and the Civil War. New York: J. Walter & Co., 1864.
Reprint, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1970.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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