Famous CW politicians
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| Georgia congressman who opposed secession but became Vice President of the Confederacy; he argued that slavery was the cornerstone of the new southern nation. | Alexander H. Stephens
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| Buchanan's Vice President who ran for president in 1860 as the leader of the Southern Democrats | John C. Breckinridge
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| Denied the nomination of his party at the Charleston convention | Stephen A. Douglas
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| Corrupt Secretary of War in Buchanan's cabinet | John Floyd
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| Ohio senator who lost out on the nomination to Lincoln, but took the job of Secretary of the Treasury in Lincoln's cabinet | Salmon P. Chase
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| Was regarded as too radical for the Republican nomination in 1860 because of his many speeches predicting an "irrepressible conflict" | William Seward
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| Missouri politician who lost out on the 1860 Republican nomination because he had been a slave-owner and a Know-Nothing | Edward Bates
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| Pennsylvanian politician who lost out on the 1860 nomination because he had been a member of several different parties and had a reputation of corruption | Simon Cameron
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| Supporters of Abraham Lincoln in the 1860 election | Wide Awakes
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| Supporters who had given aid to John | Secret Six
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| Tennessee politician who ran for president for the Constitutional Union Party | John Bell
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| Kentucky senator who tried to negotiate a compromise during the secession crisis | John J. Crittenden
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| Influential New York newspaper editor who supported Lincoln in 1860 | Horace Greeley
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| Elected president of the Confederacy | Jefferson Davis
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| Lincoln's chief military advisor at the start of the war | Winfield Scott
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| Said that secession was illegal but that the federal government didn't have the power to stop it | James Buchanan
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| Republican leader of German-Americans who campaigned for Lincoln in 1860 | Carl Schurz
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| Ruled that blacks were not citizens and that Congress did not have the right to legislate to keep slavery out of the territories | Roger B. Taney
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| Wrote The Impending Crisis which argued that slavery hurt poor whites and the Southern economy. His book was banned throughout the South | Hinton Rowan Helper
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