William Lowndes Yancey (August 10, 1814 – July 27, 1863) was a political leader in the Antebellum South. As an influential "Fire-Eater", he defended slavery...

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...

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...

businessman William Lowndes Yancey (1814–1863), Alabama politician who supported secession Yancey Arias (born 1971), American actor Yancey McGill (born...

a platform dispute, led by the extreme pro-slavery "Fire-Eater" William Lowndes Yancey and the Alabama delegation: following them were the entire delegations...

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...

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...

travel up the Coosa as far as Rome, Georgia. One famous resident was William Lowndes Yancey, a firebrand newspaper editor and statesman who was an influential...

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...

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...

University Press, USA. ISBN 0-19-513944-5. Walther, Eric H. (2006). William Lowndes Yancey: The Coming of the Civil War. Univ of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-3027-5...

hosted a number of prominent doctor's and law offices, including the William Lowndes Yancey Law Office. The district was listed on the National Register of...

graves are on a hill adjacent to the burial site of William Lowndes Yancey and his wife Sarah Yancey, who died in Athens, Georgia, 20 years after he did...

(1862–64) included two senators from Alabama—Clement Claiborne Clay and William Lowndes Yancey (died July 23, 1863; replaced by Robert Jemison Jr.). Representing...

the Fire-Eaters, an extremist group of Southern delegates led by William Lowndes Yancey. After a contentious battle over the inclusion of popular sovereignty...

W. Norton & Company, 2000. ISBN 0-393-04758-X. Walther, Eric H. William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War. Chapel Hill: University of North...

English physicist, meteorologist, and chemist (b. 1776) 1863 – William Lowndes Yancey, American journalist and politician (b. 1813) 1865 – Jean-Joseph...

play a prominent role on the national stage. Montgomery resident William Lowndes Yancey served in both houses of the Alabama State Legislature and in the...

member of the Maine Senate from the 11th district (2010–2014) William Lowndes Yancey (member of the class of 1833 but did not graduate), Alabama Congressman...

Montgomery, Alabama in 1858 to debate the issue. As one speaker, William Lowndes Yancey of Alabama, argued: The gentleman said that be held in his hand...

secessionist who had fallen under the influence of Fire-Eaters like William Lowndes Yancey. The party also attacked Lincoln as an inexperienced, sectional...

of Independence signatory. He freed his slaves late in his life. William Lowndes Yancey (1814–1863), American secessionist leader, he was gifted 36 people...

secession for the whole South. After the Nashville Convention, Rhett, William Lowndes Yancey, and a few others met in Macon, Georgia on August 21, 1850, and...

throughout its existence. In 1863, a debate between Hill and Senator William Lowndes Yancey of Alabama, a Davis critic, over a bill intended to create the Confederate...

retiring from the bench, he established a law partnership with William Lowndes Yancey. In 1859 he was elected to the state Senate from Macon County. Chilton...

on the slavery issue. Fire-Eater leaders like Robert Rhett and William Lowndes Yancey urged secession from the United States, and attempted to win control...

the leadership of conservative figures such as William Rufus King, John Gayle and William Lowndes Yancey, the local Democratic Party took to represent...

In 1845 he fought a duel with a fellow congressman William Lowndes Yancey of Alabama. In Yancey's maiden speech on the House floor, he had impugned his...

July 1863), to his wife, Margaret Lea Houston "Sarah.": 188  — William Lowndes Yancey, Confederate journalist, politician, orator and diplomat (27 July...

Georgia. His father was Nathan S. S. Beman and his half-brother was William Lowndes Yancey. He was admitted to the Alabama and New York bars. Beman served...