Jefferson Finis Davis was an American politician who served as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. Davis believed that corruption had destroyed the old Union and that the Confederacy had to be pure to survive. During his presidency, Davis was never able to find a strategy that would defeat the larger, more industrially developed Union.

Stephen Russell Mallory (1813 - November 9, 1873) was a United States politician and the Confederate Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War. Mallory was considered one of President Jefferson Davis's ablest Cabinet officers. He was the father of Stephen Russell Mallory, a U.S. Representative and Senator from Florida.

Ambrose Dudley Mann (April 26, 1801-1889) was the first United States Assistant Secretary of State and a commissioner for the Confederate States. Mann was born on April 26, 1801 in Hanover Courthouse, Virginia. He studied at the United States Military Academy, but had left before he graduated. He later became American consul to Bremen in 1842 and was appointed to negotiate commercial treaties with Hanover, …

Henry Toole Clark (7 February 1808 - 14 April 1874) was the Democratic governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1861 to 1862 during the American Civil War. Henry T. Clark was born to a prominent Edgecombe County, North Carolina, planter family. The Clarks were members of that elite planter class that dominated social and political thought in eastern North Carolina. Henry Clark devoted over twenty years to the service of the Democratic Party at the local, state, …

John Robert Baylor (July 27, 1822-February 8, 1894) was a politician in Texas and a military officer of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Baylor was born in Paris, Kentucky, the son of a United States Army surgeon, and lived on various Army posts during his youth. He moved to Texas at age 18, where he became a prominent citizen, state legislator, and Indian Agent.

James Murray Mason (November 3, 1798 - April 28, 1871) was a United States Representative and United States Senator from Virginia. He was a grandson of George Mason and represented the Confederate States of America as appointed commissioner of the Confederacy to Great Britain and France between 1861 and 1865 during the American Civil War. He was born on Analostan Island (now Theodore Roosevelt Island) in the District of Columbia, …

James Chesnut, Jr. (January 18, 1815 - February 1, 1885) of Camden, South Carolina, was a United States Senator, a signatory of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America, and a Confederate Army officer. His wife was the well known Mary Chesnut, whose diary reveals valuable observations of Southern life in the American Civil War. Chesnut was a wealthy Southern planter, a defender of slavery, and a staunch secessionist.

Francis Wilkinson Pickens (April 7, 1805 - January 25, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Governor of South Carolina when the state seceded from the United States during the American Civil War. Pickens was born in Togadoo, St Paul's Parish, in Colleton County, South Carolina. He was the son of former Gov. Andrew Pickens and a grandson of Gen. Andrew Pickens, an American Revolutionary soldier at the Battle of Cowpens and former U.S. Congressman.

Robert Augustus Toombs (July 2, 1810 - December 15, 1885) was an American political leader, Secretary of State of the Confederacy, and a Confederate general in the Civil War.

Thomas Caute Reynolds was a lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of Missouri as it considered secession and the second Confederate governor of Missouri. After the war he prepared an unpublished manuscript that described his role and the role of Missouri in the Civil War.

Jacob Thompson (May 15, 1810 - March 24, 1885) was a lawyer and politician who served as United States Secretary of the Interior from 1857 to 1861. Born in Leasburg, North Carolina, in 1810, Thompson attended Bingham Academy in Orange County, North Carolina, and later went on to graduate from the University of North Carolina in 1831. Afterwards, he served on the university faculty for a short time until he left to study law in 1832.

James Dunwoody Bulloch (25 June1823 - 7 January1901) was the Confederate States of America's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War. He was the half-brother of a distinguished Confederate naval officer, Irvine Bulloch and of Martha Bulloch. Martha was the mother of future U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt.

Martin Jenkins Crawford (March 17, 1820-July 23, 1883) was a U.S. Representative and a representative to the Provisional Confederate Congress from the state of Georgia. Crawford was born in 1820 in Jasper County, Georgia. He attended Brownwood Institute and Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. After studying law, he was admitted to the bar in 1839 and became a practicing attorney in Hamilton, Georgia in addition to farming.

Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, (June 5, 1825 - February 12, 1903) was a lawyer, soldier, U.S. Congressman, college professor and administrator, diplomat, and officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Curry was born in Lincoln County, Georgia, grew up in Alabama and graduated from the University of Georgia in 1843 where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society.

Anthony Martin Branch (July 16, 1823 - October 3, 1867) was a prominent Confederate politician. He was born in Buckingham County, Virginia and later moved to Texas. he was a member of the Texas House of Representatives in 1859 and the Texas Senate in 1861. He served in the Confederate Army and represented Texas in the Second Confederate Congress.

William Waters Boyce (October 24, 1818 - February 3, 1890) was an attorney, South Carolina state politician, and a U.S. Congressman. He was also a prominent Confederate States of America politician during the American Civil War. Boyce was born in Charleston, South Carolina and attended South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) and the University of Virginia. He was admitted to the bar in 1839. He served in the state House of Representatives from 1846-47.

Francis Stebbins Bartow (September 6, 1816 - July 21, 1861) was an attorney, Confederate States of America political leader, and military officer during the early months of the American Civil War. He was an inaugural representative to the Confederate Provisional Congress, where he led efforts to prepare for war. He was killed at the First Battle of Bull Run, becoming the second Confederate general officer (after General Robert S. Garnett at Corricks Ford, July 13, …

William Lowndes Yancey (August 10, 1814 - July 27, 1863) was an American leader of the Southern secession movement as a journalist, politician, orator, and diplomat. Part of the group characterized as the Fire-Eaters, Yancey was seen by many as one of the most effective agitators for secession and rhetorical defenders of slavery. Throughout the critical 1850s Yancey, sometimes referred to as the "Orator of Secession", …

Henry Throop Stanton (1834 - 1899) was an American poet, best known for his poem "The Moneyless Man". He was born in Alexandria, Virginia, and educated in Maysville, Kentucky. He attended West Point for a time, but eventually quit the school. He later made a living as an editor and later as a lawyer. During the American Civil War, Stanton served as the adjutant general of the Confederate States of America. Afterward, he returned to his editing.

Pierre Adolphe Rost was born in France in 1797. He received his education at the École Polytechnique in Paris, France where men were recruited into the civil service or military. As an artilleryman, he was credited for brave conduct in the defense of Paris on March 30, 1814. Rost applied for a commission in Napoleon's army after the Emperor's escape from Elba, Italy, but was too late for the Battle of Waterloo. Escaping from what he thought to be an oppressive régime, …

John Slidell (1793 - July 26, 1871), a native of New York City, moved to Louisiana and became a U.S. representative and a U.S. senator from that state in the mid-nineteenth century.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 - March 4, 1883) was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

Claiborne Fox Jackson (April 4, 1806 - December 6, 1862) was a lawyer, soldier, politician. He was Governor of Missouri in 1861, then governor-in-exile for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.

James Farrow (April 3, 1827 - July 3, 1892) was a Confederate States of America politician during the American Civil War. He was born in Laurens, South Carolina, and served in the South Carolina State Legislature 1856 - 1862. He served as a representative from South Carolina to the Confederate Congress from 1862 - 1865.

John Hemphill (December 18, 1803 - January 3, 1862) was Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court, a United States Senator, and a veteran of wars with Native Americans. Hemphill's father, Rev. John Hemphill, emigrated to the United States from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, his mother, Jane Lind, was a native of Pennsylvania. Hemphill was born in South Carolina and educated at Jefferson College, graduating in 1825. Admitted to the bar in South Carolina in 1829, …