| Christopher Gustavus Memminger
(1803-1888) -- also known as Christopher G. Memminger -- Adoptive son
of Thomas Bennett. Born in Heilbronn, Germany, January 9, 1803. Lawyer;
member of South Carolina state legislature, 1836-52, 1854-60, 1876-79;
delegate to South Carolina secession convention, 1861; Delegate from
South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62;
Confederate Secretary of the Treasury, 1861-64. Episcopalian. Chairman
of the committee that drew up the Constitution of the Confederate
States of America. His portrait appeared on Confederate States notes
and bonds from 1861 to 1864. Pardoned by President AndrewJohnson in
1867. Died in Flat Rock, Henderson County, N.C., March 7, 1888. |
Robert Tyler (1816-1877), the
Registry of the Treasury, was a son of U.S. President John Tyler by his
first wife. Tyler was head of the Democratic party in Pennsylvania and
a personal friend of President James Buchanan before he had to flee to
the Confederacy. Through his father's influence, he procured the post
of Register of the Treasury, which he held from August 13, 1861 to the
end of the war. After the war Tyler moved with his family to Alabama,
where he became a newspaper editor. He also became the head of the
Democratic Party in Alabama.
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