biography
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Vallandigham, Clement Laird
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| lived:
| (1820–71)
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| biography:
| US politician, born in New Lisbon, Ohio, USA. Of Southern ancestry, a supporter of state's rights, and an ardent anti-abolitionist, he served in the US House of Representatives (Democrat, Ohio, 1858–63) opposing the Republicans at every step. After the outbreak of the Civil War he became a leader of the Peace Democrats - better known as the Copperheads. A military court convicted him of treason (May 1863) and Lincoln ordered him banished from the North. He ran for governor of Ohio in absentia later in 1863 and was soundly defeated. Returning to Ohio (Jun 1864) via Canada and the South, he prepared the peace plank in the Democrats' 1864 presidential platform. He worked after the war for reconciliation between the North and South. |
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