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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—AlabamaYANCEY, William Lowndes
(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
Draughon, Ralph Brown, Jr. “William Lowndes Yancey: From Unionist to Secessionist 1814-1852.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968; Mitchell, Rexford S. “William Lowndes Yancey: Orator of Southern Constitutional Rights.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1937.
Draughon, Ralph Brown, Jr. “William Loundes Yancey: From Unionist to Secessionist 1814-1852.” Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1968.
———. “The Young Manhood of William L. Yancey.” Alabama Review
19 (January 1966): 28-40.
Dubose, John Witherspoon. The Life and Times of William Lowndes Yancey. A History of Political Parties in the United States, from 1834 to 1864
. 2 vols. Birmingham, Ala.: Roberts and Son, 1892. Reprint, New York: P. Smith, 1942.
Eaton, Clement. “The Voice of Emotion.” The Mind of the Old South.
Rev. ed. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1967), 267-87.
Freshley, Dwight L. “Vacillation and Venom: Andrew Johnson versus William L. Yancey.” Southern Speech Journal
28 (Winter 1962): 98-108.
Golden, James L. “Hilliard vs. Yancey: Prelude to the Civil War.” Quarterly Journal of Speech
42 (February 1956): 35-44.
McMillan, Malcolm C. “William L. Yancey and the Historians: One Hundred Years.” Alabama Review
20 (July 1967): 163-86.
Mellen, George F. “Henry W. Hilliard and William L. Yancey.” Sewanee Review
17 (January 1909): 32-50.
Mitchell, Rexford S. “William Lowndes Yancey: Orator of Southern Constitutional Rights.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1937.
Petrie, George. What Will Be the Final Estimate of Yancey
? Montgomery, Ala.: N.p., 1904.
Venable, Austin L. “The Public Career of William Lowndes Yancey.” Alabama Review
16 (July 1963): 200-12.
———. “The Role of William L. Yancey in the Secession Movement.” Ph.D. diss., Vanderbilt University, 1937. Nashville: Privately printed by the Joint University Libraries, 1945.
———. The Role of William L. Yancey in the Secession Movement
. [Nashville]: N.p., 1945.
———. “William L. Yancey’s Transition from Unionism to State Rights.” Journal of Southern History
10 (August 1944): 331-42.
Walther, Eric H. “We Shall Fire the Southern Heart: William Lowndes Yancey.” In The Fire-Eaters,
pp. 48-92. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.
Yancey, William Lowndes. An address on the life and character of John Caldwell Calhoun
. Montgomery: Advertiser and Gazette Print
, 1850.
———. The Issues Involved in the Presidential Contest
. Frankfort, Ky.: Printed at the Yeoman Office, 1860.
———. Speech of the Hon. William L. Yancey, of Alabama, delivered in the National Democratic convention, Charleston, April 28th, 1860. With the Protest of the Alabama delegation .
Charleston: Walker, Evans and Company, 1860.
———. Speech of Mr. Yancey ... on the Oregon question
. Washington: N.p., 1846.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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