William Lander

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William Lander (born May 8, 1817 in County Tipperary , Ireland , † January 8, 1868 in Lincoln , North Carolina ) was an American lawyer and Confederate politician . He belonged to the Democratic Party .

Career

William Lander, eldest child of Elizabeth "Eliza" Ann Miller and Samuel Lander, was born during the reign of George III. , King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , was born in County Tipperary. The family emigrated to America in 1818. My first destination was Boston ( Massachusetts ). From there they moved south in small stages. In North Carolina, the family in 1824 reached Salisbury ( Rowan County ) and 1826 Lincolnton ( Lincoln County ). His father became a successful coach builder and also worked as a lay methodist preacher. William attended Lincoln Academy and Cokesbury College in South Carolina . He then studied law in Lincoln with the lawyer James Richard Dodge (1795-1880). In 1839 he was admitted to the bar. His studies were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 and the following years were to be the Mexican-American War . With his eloquence and his legal acumen, he was soon able to build up a successful practice so that he could acquire and run a small farm. In 1852 he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives, where he served a single term. During this time he turned most of his attention to clearing up the problems created by the division into Lincoln County and Gaston Counties in 1846 . Lander was elected a county solicitor , briefly serving as a district solicitor in 1853 . He held the latter post until 1862 while continuing to work as a lawyer. His political reputation grew during the crisis of secession. In 1860 he took part in the Democratic National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina, where he campaigned for party harmony. The convention was canceled before the end and therefore a new convention was called in Baltimore ( Maryland ), where Stephen A. Douglas (1813–1861) should be nominated as a candidate for president . Lander announced the following for his delegation:

"A very large majority of our delegation is compelled to retire permanently from this convention on account. . . of the unjust course that has been pursued. "

He then joined the other Southern "Bolters," to nominate John C. Breckinridge (1821-1875) and Joseph Lane (1801-1881). In October, in a high-profile debate with Zebulon Baird Vance (1830–1894), Lander admitted that the election of Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) as US President might not be the only reason for secession, but warned before that subsequent occurrences could cause this. In early 1861, Lander was an active secessionist and attended the North Carolina Secession Assembly in May as a delegate, where he voted for his state's secession. In November 1861 he was elected to the first Confederate Congress for the eighth constituency of North Carolina , where he served from February 18, 1862 to February 17, 1864. During this time he sat on the Committee on Patents and the Committee on Quartermaster and Commissary Departments. In general, he was a staunch Confederate nationalist, if reluctant, who supported most of the central government's proposals, whether they wanted control of individuals or the economy. For example, his only concession to the state's interests during the debates over conscription was to support a failed law amendment in which the president now asked states to provide conscripts even though they had supplied him with their last manpower. The mere discarding of the old banknotes represented a breach of contract for Lander and reflected his state's dissatisfaction with the confederate legislature. In his re-election in 1863, he suffered a defeat, since he appeared as a candidate for peace. After his return to Lincoln, he resumed his practice as a lawyer and practiced it until his death in 1868. Between 1858 and 1867 he was a trustee at the University of North Carolina. His body was interred in the cemetery of the Methodist Church in Lincolnnton.

family

Lander married Sarah Tillman Connor (1824-1863) from Cokesbury, South Carolina on May 8, 1839 . The couple had six children: Samuel, Agnes, Ella, Frank, William and Clara. The last two children named died in childhood.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Richard Dodge in the database Find a Grave (English)
  2. ↑ The Confederate States almanac and repository of useful knowledge: for the year 1863 , Gale Cengage Learning, ISBN 9781432804930 , p. 33
  3. ↑ Sarah Connor Tillman Lander in the database of Find a Grave (English)

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personal data
SURNAME Lander, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and Confederate politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH County Tipperary , Ireland
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1868
Place of death Lincoln , North Carolina