Prominent Antebellum Politicians


"The Great Triumvirate"


John C. Calhoun  (1782 - 1850)  South Carolina, Democrat

Henry Clay  (1777 - 1852)  Kentucky, Federalist-National Republican-Whig

Daniel Webster  (1782 - 1852)  Massachusetts, Federalist-National Republican-Whig


U.S. Presidents - 1825 - 1865

John Quincy Adams  (1767 - 1848)  Massachusetts, Federalist-National Republican-Whig, 6th U.S. president, 1825 - 1829

Andrew Jackson  (1767 - 1845)  Tennessee, Democrat, 7th U.S. President, 1829 - 1837

Martin van Buren  (1782 - 1862)  New York, Democrat, 8th President, 1837 - 1841 

William Henry Harrison  (1773 - 1841)  Ohio, 9th U.S. president, 1 month in 1841

John Tyler  (1790 - 1862)  Virginia, Whig?/Democrat?, 10th U.S. president, 1841 - 1845

James K. Polk  (1795 - 1849)  Tennessee,  Democrat, 11th U.S. president, 1845-1849

Zachary Taylor  (1784 - 1850)  Virginia, Whig, 12th U.S. president, 18 months 1849 - 1850

Millard Fillmore  (1800 - 1874)  New York, Whig,  13th U.S. president 1850 - 1853

Franklin Pearce  (1804 - 1869)  New Hampshire, Democrat, 14th U.S. President, 1853 - 1857

James Buchanan  (1791 - 1868)  Pennsylvania, Democrat, 16th U.S. President, 1857 - 1861

Abraham Lincoln  (1809 - 1865)  Illinois Whig-Republican, 16th U.S. President, 1861 - 1865


Southern Politicians:

Jefferson Davis  (1808 - 1889)  Mississippi, Democrat, C.S.A. president, 1861 - 1865

Alexander Stephens  (1812 - 1883)  Georgia, Whig-Democrat, C.S.A. Vice President, 1861 - 1865

David R. Atchison  (1807 - 1886)  Missouri, Democrat - F Street Mess

Thomas Hart Benton  (1782 - 1858)  Missouri, Democrat, slave owner turned against slavery

Andrew P. Butler  (1896 - 1857)  - South Carolina, Democrat - F Street Mess

Howell Cobb  (1815 - 1868)  Georgia, Democrat

James D. B. De Bow  (1820 - 1867)  Louisiana, publisher of De Bow's Review 

James Henry Hammond  (1807 - 1864)  South Carolina, Democrat

Robert M.T. Hunter  (1809 - 1887)  Virginia, Democrat - F Street Mess

Lawrence Keitt  (1824 - 1864)  South Carolina, Democrat

James M. Mason  (1798 - 1871)  Virginia, Democrat - F Street Mess

Henry L. Pinckney  (1794 - 1863)  South Carolina, Democrat, founder of the Charleston Mercury

Robert Barnwell Rhett  (1800 - 1876)  South Carolina, Democrat, owner of the
Charleston Mercury

Louis Wigfall  (1816 - 1874)  Texas, Democrat

Henry Wise  (1806 - 1876)  Virginia, Democrat, governor 1856 - 1860

William Lowndes Yancey  (1814 - 1863)  South Carolina, Democrat



Northern Politicians

Charles Francis Adams, Sr  (1807 - 1886)  Massachusetts, Free Soiler-Republican

Nathan P. Banks  (1816 - 1894)  Massachusetts, Democrat-Free Soiler-Republican

Francis Preston Blair, Sr  (1791 - 1886)  Kentucky, Democrat-Free Soiler-Republican

Anson Burlingame  (1820 - 1870)  Massachusetts, Free Soiler-Know Nothing-Republican

Salmon P. Chase  (1808 - 1873)   Ohio, Liberty Party-Free Soiler-Republican, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury

John J. Crittenden  (1787 - 1863)  Kentucky, Whig-Know Nothing-Constitutional Unionist

Alexander De Witt  (1798 - 1879)  Massachusetts, Free Soiler-Know Nothing-Republican

Stephen Douglas  (1813 - 1861)  Illinois, Democrat, pro-slavery

John C. Frémont  (1813 - 1890)  California, Free Soil Democrat-Republican, 1856 presidential candidate

Joshua Giddings  (1795 - 1864)  Ohio, Whig-Free Soiler-Opposion-Republican 

Horace Greeley  (1811 - 1872)  New York, (Radical) Republican, founder/editor of the New York Tribune

William H. Seward  (1801 - 1872)  New York, Whig-Republican, Lincoln's Secretary of State

Gerrit Smith  (1797 - 1874)  New York, Free Soiler and financial contributor to the Liberty and Republican Parties.

Thaddeus Stevens  (1792 - 1868)  Pennsylvania, Whig-(Radical) Republican

Charles Sumner  (1811 - 1874)  Massachusetts, "conscious" Whig-Free Soiler to (Radical) Republican

Benjamin Wade  (1800 - 1878)  Ohio, Whig-(Radical) Republican

Thurlow Weed  (1797 - 1883)  New York, Whig- Republican, newspaper publisher

Henry Wilson  (1812 - 1875)  Massachusetts, Whig-Free Soiler-(Radical) Republican.  




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