Isham G. Harris of Tennessee - Confederate Governor and United States Senator

Informationen zum Autor Sam Davis Elliott is the author of Soldier of Tennessee: General Alexander P. Stewart and the Civil War in the West and Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. and Second Bishop of Tennessee: The Memoir and Civil War Diary of Charles Todd Quintard. He is a practicing attorney and lives near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Klappentext Isham Green Harris rose to prominence as leader of the southern rights wing of the Democratic Party in the 1850's. During the secession crisis of 1861, he used his influence and constitutional power as governor to trample on the Tennessee constitution in order to align Tennessee with the Confederacy; he tirelessly supported the Confederate war effort. When the war ended, he went into voluntary and temporary exile in Mexico, returning home in late 1867. He eventually became the best known of the state's Bourbon Democrats and was elected United States Senator in 1877, remaining in that office until his death. Zusammenfassung Offers the first published biography of this overlooked leader, establishing him as the most prominent Tennessean in the Confederacy and a dominating participant in nineteenth-century Tennessee politics.

Product details

• Authors: Sam Davis Elliott
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9780807134900
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3490-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Southern Biography (Hardcover); Southern Biography (Hardcover); Southern Biography; Southern Biography Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous