Alexander Stephens
Alexander Hamilton Stephens (February 11, 1812 – March 4, 1883) was an American and Confederate politician. He was from Georgia. Stephens was short and sickly for much of his life. Stephens owned a fair number of slaves. He served as a Whig congressman from 1843 to 1859. Later, he became a member of the Constitutional Union Party and then a Democrat. Stephens was the Vice-President of the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865. While Vice-President, he tried to end the war and did not get along with Confederate President Jefferson Davis. After the war, Stephens again was a U.S. Congressman, and was Governor of Georgia for a short time.
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Alexander H Stephens as a young man
Photograph by Mathew Brady
Alexander H. Stephens. Oil painting by John White Alexander. Published as cover of Harper's Weekly, 27:145 (March 10, 1883).
President Davis' first cabinet (1861)
Stephens depicted on an 1862 Confederate States $20 banknote
Alexander H. Stephens Monument in front of his house, Liberty Hall.
Alexander H. Stephens, in public and private : with letters and speeches, before, during, and since the war (1866)
Statue of Stephens sculpted in Georgia marble by Gutzon Borglum, given in 1927 to the National Statuary Hall, U.S. Capitol
