alexander stephen

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He never married. He has no known direct descendants, but in 2017 his great-great-great grandnephews, brothers Alexander M. Stephens and Brendan Stephens, in a letter to Georgia Governor Nathan Deal and the state Legislature and published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, wrote that  "Confederate monuments need to come down." They also told a reporter that they wanted Stephens' statues moved to a museum, "not to have it 'wiped away' but to have it contextualized so that someone might actually learn something from it."

alexander stephen, born 2-11-1812, before achieving notoriety as a Politician, after graduating from Franklin college, later the University of Georgia, Stephens became a practicing attorney. He entered politics in 1836, when he was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. In 1843, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He started off as a Whig, then became a Unionist, then switched to the Democratic party. 

In Politician professional career, as the Civil War approached, he opposed the South seceding from the Union but defended slavery. By the time the war began, he owned 34 slaves. He was sickly throughout his life and suffered from rheumatoid arthritis and a pinched nerve in his back.

As vice president of the Confederacy, he served eight days more in office than CSA president Jefferson Davis (Pol.). In 1863, he and Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee (Pol.) tried to meet with President Abraham Lincoln (US President) to exchange prisoners, but the Union's victory at Gettysburg, the administration refused to meet with them.  and Cassius Marcellus Clay were also His acquaintances.

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● alexander stephen was born on February 11, 1812 (age 71) in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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