William Lowndes Yancey. Salted paper print, c. 1858. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
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Yancey, William Lowndes (1814-1863), U.S. congressman, secessionist, and Confederate senator
J. Mills Thornton
Yancey, William Lowndes (10 August 1814–27 July 1863), U.S. congressman, secessionist, and Confederate senator, was born at the shoals of the Ogeechee River, on the boundary between Warren and Hancock counties, Georgia, the son of Benjamin Cudworth Yancey, an attorney and South Carolina state legislator, and Caroline Bird. Benjamin Yancey died in 1817, and in 1821 Caroline married ...