- Tennessee Delegation
The Peace Conference of 1861
In February 1861, following the inauguration of Lincoln and the secession of seven states from the Union, a convention of 131 politicians from the remaining states met in Washington, D. C., at the Willard Hotel. They aimed to prevent civil war, and the secession of further states, by proposing an amendment to the Constitution that would protect the existence and practice of slavery, within certain parameters, by enshrining them in constitutional law. An amendment was eventually agreed and recommended to Congress, where it was not passed.
Tennessee Delegation
This is one of the 22 delegations in the convention, accounting for 12 of 138 people who took part.
Members (12):
| Name | Visualize | Details | Delegations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josiah M. Anderson | Visualize | None | Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Robert L. Carruthers | Visualize | None | Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Alvin Cullom | Visualize | None | Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Isaac R. Hawkins | Visualize | "(May 16, 1818 -- August 12, 1880) Isaac Roberts Hawkins was a(n) farmer, lawyer, soldier, judge, public servant, and American politician. Hawkins was born close to Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in in 1843. He was a delegate from Tennessee to the peace conference in Washington D. C., in an effort to prevent the impending war (1861), Judge of the circuit court (1862), commissioned by Governor Brownlow as one of the chancellors of Tennessee but declined (July 1865), and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention (1868). He served as a lieutenant in the Mexican War, entered in the Union Army as lieutenant colonel of the 7th Regiment, Tennessee Volunteer Calvary, was captured with his regiment and was imprisoned (1864 - August 1864), and was in command of the Cavalry force in western Kentucky until the end of the Civil War. Hawkins was elected as a Unionist to the 39th congress and as a Republican to the 40th and 41st Congresses (July 24, 1866 - March 3, 1871), where he served as chairmen on the Committee on Mileage (41st Congress). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=H000370]" | Tennessee Delegation (United States Fourteenth Amendment & The Civil Rights Act of 1866) , Tennessee Delegation (United States Fifteenth Amendment) , Tennessee Delegation (The Civil Rights Act of 1875) , Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |
| William P. Hickerson | Visualize | None | Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |
| George W. Jones | Visualize | None | Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Thomas Martin | Visualize | None | Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |
| R. J. McKinney | Visualize | None | Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |
| Samuel Milligan | Visualize | None | Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |
| William H. Stephens | Visualize | None | Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |
| A. W. O. Totten | Visualize | None | Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |
| F. K. Zollicoffer | Visualize | None | Tennessee Delegation (This negotiation) |