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Name | James Alexander Seddon |
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Order | 4th |
Title | Confederate States Secretary of War |
Term start | November 21, 1862 |
Term end | February 5, 1865 |
President | Jefferson Davis |
Predecessor | George W. Randolph |
Successor | John C. Breckinridge |
Birth date | July 13, 1815 |
Birth place | Falmouth, Virginia, U.S. |
Death date | August 19, 1880 |
Death place | Goochland County, Virginia, U.S. |
Party | Democrat |
Spouse | Sarah Bruce Seddon |
Profession | Politician, Lawyer |
Religious affiliation | Church of Scotland |
In 1845, he was nominated by the Democratic Party for Congress and was easily elected. Two years later, he was renominated, but declined due to platform differences with the party. In 1849, Seddon was reelected to Congress, serving from December 1849 until March 1851. Owing to poor health, he declined another nomination at the end of his term and retired to "Sabot Hill," his estate on the James River above Richmond.
Seddon attended the peace convention held in Washington, D.C., in 1861, which attempted to devise a means of preventing the impending civil war. Later in the same year, he attended the Provisional Confederate Congress. President Davis named him as the Secretary of War, a post he held until January 1, 1865, when he retired from public life to his country estate.
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