Early Life
He was born in New Lisbon, Ohio (now Lisbon, Ohio), to Clement Vallandigham and his wife Rebecca Laird. Vallandigham had a dispute with the college president and was honorably dismissed in 1841 from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He never received a diploma.
Edwin M. Stanton, the future Secretary of War under Lincoln, and Vallandigham were “intimate personal friends” before the Civil War. Stanton loaned Vallandigham $500 for a course and to begin a law practice. Both Vallandigham and Stanton were Democrats, but had opposing views of slavery.
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