Alexander H. Stephens, .5" x 4.5" autograph affixed to an excerpt titled “The Lecompton Constitution,” measuring 5 x 8.75 inches.
The printed Congressional report excerpt is dated March 10, 1858, and relates to the contentious Lecompton Constitution debate in the U.S. House of Representatives concerning the admission of Kansas as a slave state
A historically significant signed political document from the pre–Civil War era, directly connected to one of the most divisive constitutional crises of the 1850s and bearing the autograph of one of the era’s most prominent Southern statesmen.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was an American politician who served as the first and only vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, and later as the 50th governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented the state of Georgia in the United States House of Representatives before and after the Civil War.
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