War Democrats - Leadership

Leadership

Prominent War Democrats included:

  • Andrew Johnson, the U.S. senator, then military governor of Tennessee who was elected Vice President in 1864 on a ticket with Lincoln, and became President after Lincoln's assassination
  • George Bancroft, historian and presidential speech writer
  • John Brough, Governor of Ohio
  • Benjamin F. Butler, Congressman from Massachusetts; Union general
  • John Cochrane (general)
  • John Adams Dix, of New York, Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury, Union general
  • Stephen A. Douglas, Senator from Illinois; Democratic Party's northern candidate in the presidential election of 1860, who died a few weeks into the war
  • Ulysses S. Grant, storekeeper in Illinois & Union general, later became Republican; Elected 18th President of the United States 1869; 1872
  • Joseph Holt, Kentucky; Buchanan's Secretary of War; Lincoln's Judge-Advocate General of the Army
  • Francis Kernan, Congressman from New York
  • Michael Crawford Kerr, 32nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from December 6, 1875 to August 19, 1876
  • John A. Logan, Congressman from Illinois; Union general
  • George B. McClellan, railroad president; Union general; Democratic presidential nominee in 1864
  • Joel Parker, Governor of New Jersey
  • Edwards Pierrepont, in 1875, he was appointed U.S. Attorney General by President Ulysses S. Grant.
  • William Rosecrans, led the Union at Chickamauga and was asked to run with Lincoln as a War Democrat in 1864
  • Daniel Sickles, former New York congressman, led III Corps at Gettysburg where he lost a leg
  • David Tod, Governor of Ohio
  • Edwin M. Stanton, Ohio; Buchanan's Attorney General and Lincoln's Secretary of War

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