William Lowndes Yancey (August 10, 1814 – July 27, 1863) was an American politician in the Antebellum South. As an influential "Fire-Eater", he defended...
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The William Lowndes Yancey Law Office is located at the corner of Washington and Perry Streets in Montgomery, Alabama. It served as the law offices for...
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a platform dispute, led by the extreme pro-slavery "Fire-Eater" William Lowndes Yancey and the Alabama delegation: following them were the entire delegations...
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such men as Edmund Ruffin, Robert Rhett, Louis T. Wigfall, and William Lowndes Yancey, this group was dubbed "Fire-Eaters" by Northerners. At an 1850...
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businessman William Lowndes Yancey (1814–1863), Alabama politician who supported secession Yancey Arias (born 1971), American actor Yancey McGill (born...
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In a Senate debate, Benjamin H. Hill threw an inkstand at William Lowndes Yancey, and Yancey and Edward A. Pollard had such fierce attacks on one another...
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the role of slavery as an economic institution. In October 1860 William Lowndes Yancey, a leading advocate of secession, placed the value of Southern-held...
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finished in fourth place on the thirteenth season of American Idol William Lowndes Yancey, Confederate politician and diplomat John Q. Loomis, Confederate...
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indicated before the name. Alabama 1. Clement Claiborne Clay 3. William Lowndes Yancey (died on July 23, 1863) Robert Jemison Jr. (took his seat on December...
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Press. Taylor, John M. William Henry Seward: Lincoln's Right Hand (1991) ISBN 1-57488-119-1 Walther, Eric H. William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil...
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