Jean-Marie Le Pen
French politician
John H. Reagan
American politician (1818-1905)
John Henninger Reaganwas an American politician from Texas. A Democrat, Reagan resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives when Texas declared secession from the United States and joined the Confederate States of America.
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John Henninger Reaganwas an American politician from Texas. A Democrat, Reagan resigned from the U.S. House of Representatives when Texas declared secession from the United States and joined the Confederate States of America. He served in the cabinet of Jefferson Davis as Postmaster General.
After the Confederate defeat and his release from prison after the war, Reagan called for cooperation by the southern states with the U.S. government, an unpopular position among most conservative whites. He was elected to Congress in 1874 and was elected in 1886 by the state legislature as a Democrat from Texas to the U.S. Senate, where he served one term from 1887 to 1891. He resigned from the seat when appointed by the governor as chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission. He was among the founders of the Texas State Historical Association.
He was the only former Confederate cabinet member to be sit in the US Senate after the civil war. Alexander H. Stephens, the only Confederate Vice President, was also elected in 1866 to represent Georgia, but was refused to be seated to the Senate due to his war history. Elected as the representative of the Democratic Party for the state of Texas, he sat in the Senate for just one term; he was one of just three former Confederate cabinet members to take major political offices after the war.
7 Quotes by John H. Reagan
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But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
John H. ReaganAmerican politician (1818-1905)
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The success of those doctrines would also subvert the Federal Constitution, change the character of the Federal Government, and destroy our rights in respect to slavery.
John H. ReaganAmerican politician (1818-1905)
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It is proclaimed by the great leaders of that party, by its political conventions, by its ministers of the Gospel, and by every other means they have of giving currency and importance to the declaration, that it is its mission to abolish slavery in the Union.
John H. ReaganAmerican politician (1818-1905)
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You are not content with the vast millions of tribute we pay you annually under the operation of our revenue law, our navigation laws, your fishing bounties, and by making your people our manufacturers, our merchants, our shippers.
John H. ReaganAmerican politician (1818-1905)
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The people of the Southern States now own near five millions of these negroes, and they are worth to them near three millions of dollars.
John H. ReaganAmerican politician (1818-1905)
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The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits – disunion.
John H. ReaganAmerican politician (1818-1905)
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The Constitution of the United States was made by white men, the citizens and representatives of twelve slaveholding and one non-slaveholding State; and it was made for white men.
John H. ReaganAmerican politician (1818-1905)