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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaWilliam Lowndes YANCEY
(1814-1863)
YANCEY, William Lowndes,
(uncle of Joseph Haynsworth Earle), a Representative from Alabama;
born at the Falls of the Ogeechee, Warren County, Ga., August 10,
1814; attended preparatory school and Williams College,
Williamstown, Mass.; studied law in Sparta, Ga., was admitted to
the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in Greenville, S.C.; moved
to Cahawba, Ala., in 1836; temporarily abandoned the practice of
law and became a cotton planter; editor of the Cahawba Democrat and
the Cahawba Gazette; moved to Wetumpka, Ala., in 1839 and resumed
the practice of law; member of the State house of representatives
in 1841; served in the State senate in 1843; elected as a Democrat
to the Twenty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Dixon H. Lewis; reelected to the Twenty-ninth
Congress and served from December 2, 1844, to September 1, 1846,
when he resigned; moved to Montgomery, Ala., in 1846; delegate to
the Democratic National Convention in 1848, 1856, and 1860; member
of the State constitutional convention which convened in Montgomery
January 7, 1861; appointed chairman of the commission sent to
Europe in 1861 to present the Confederate cause to the Governments
of England and France; elected to the first Confederate States
Senate February 21, 1862; died at his plantation home, near
Mongtomery, Ala., July 26, 1863; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
Walther, Eric H. William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the
Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press,
2006.;Draughon, Ralph Brown, Jr. “William Lowndes Yancey:
From Unionist to Secessionist 1814-1852.” Ph.D. diss.,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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