Provisional Confederate Congress
The Provisional Confederate Congress , the legislative branch of the Confederate States for a term , was the body that drafted the Confederate Constitution , elected Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States , and drafted the first Confederate flag. Unlike the later two-chamber Confederate Congress , the Provisional Confederate Congress only had one chamber and its members were referred to as deputies and delegates.
Meetings
- First session February 4, 1861 to March 16, 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama
- Second session April 29, 1861 to May 21, 1861 in Montgomery, Alabama
- Third session July 20, 1861 to August 31, 1861 in Richmond, Virginia
- Fourth Session September 3, 1861 ( Canceled ) in Richmond, Virginia
- Fifth Session November 18, 1861 to February 17, 1862 in Richmond, Virginia
management
Chair of the Provisional Congress
- Howell Cobb of Georgia (February 4, 1861 to February 17, 1862)
provisional chairperson
- Robert Woodward Barnwell of South Carolina (February 4, 1861)
- Thomas Stanley Bocock of Virginia (December 10-21 , 1861 and January 7-8, 1862)
- Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell of Mississippi (December 23-24, 1861 and January 6, 1862)
Members
Deputies
Deputies from the first seven states that split off to form the first two sessions of Congress.
- William Parish Chilton Sr.
- Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
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Thomas Fearn ( resigned March 16, 1861 after first meeting )
- Nicholas Davis Jr. ( took his seat April 29, 1861 - chosen to fill the vacancy )
- Stephen Fowler Hale
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David Peter Lewis ( resigned March 16, 1861 after first meeting )
- Henry Cox Jones ( took his seat April 29, 1861 - chosen to fill the vacancy )
- Colin John McRae
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John Gill Shorter ( resigned November 1861)
- Cornelius Robinson ( took his seat April 29, 1861 - elected to fill the vacancy; resigned January 24, 1862)
- Robert Hardy Smith
- Richard Wilde Walker
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James Patton Anderson ( resigned April 8, 1861)
- George Taliaferro Ward ( took his seat May 2, 1861 - elected to fill the vacancy; resigned February 5, 1862)
- John Pease Sanderson ( took his seat February 5, 1862 - appointed to fill the vacancy )
- Jackson Morton
- James Byeram Owens
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Francis Stebbins Bartow ( killed July 21, 1861 in the First Battle of the Bull Run )
- Thomas Marsh Forman ( took his seat Aug. 7, 1861 - appointed to fill the vacancy )
- Howell Cobb
- Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb
- Martin Jenkins Crawford
- Benjamin Harvey Hill
- Augustus Holmes Kenan
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Eugenius Aristides Nisbet ( resigned December 10, 1861)
- Nathan Henry Bass ( took his seat January 14, 1862 - appointed to fill the vacancy )
- Alexander Hamilton Stephens
- Robert Augustus Toombs
- Augustus Romaldus Wright
- Charles Magill Conrad
- Alexandre Etienne DeClouet
- Duncan Farrar connoisseur
- Henry Marshall
- John Perkins Junior
- Edward Sparrow
- William Taylor Sullivan Barry
- Walker Brooke
- Josiah Abigail Patterson Campbell
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Alexander Mosby Clayton ( resigned May 11, 1861)
- Alexander Blackburn Bradford ( took his seat on December 5, 1861 - chosen to fill the vacancy )
- Wiley P. Harris
- James Thomas Harrison
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William Sydney Wilson ( resigned March 16, 1861 after first meeting )
- Jehu Amaziah Orr ( took his seat April 29, 1861 - elected to fill the vacancy )
- Robert Woodward Barnwell
- William Waters Boyce
- James Chesnut Jr.
- Laurence Massillon Keitt
- Christopher Gustavus Memminger
- William Porcher Miles
- Robert Rhett
- Thomas Jefferson Withers ( resigned May 21, 1861 after the second session )
- James Lawrence Orr ( took his seat February 17, 1862 - appointed to fill the post )
- John Gregg
- John Hemphill ( died January 4, 1862)
- William Beck Ochiltree
- Williamson Simpson Oldham
- John Henninger Reagan
- Thomas Neville Waul
- Louis Wigfall
Delegates
In contrast to the deputies, representatives of the states that split off after the battle of Fort Sumter were called delegates from the seven states of origin.