Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1883 — IMPORTANT EVENTs. [ARTICLE]

IMPORTANT EVENTs.

LEATH OF A. HL. STBFHKKB. I Alexander H. Stephens died Bondin morning at his home in Georgia. ; Hon. Alexander H. Stephens, Govemol of Georgia, was a notable map, and tai filled no inconsiderable space in the Iml tory of the times. He was bom in Wilkel County, Ga., in 1812, graduated at tM university of that State in 1832, taujul school, read law, engaged in the practioß and entered politics. After several in the Georgia Legislature,he was to Congress in 1838, and re-elected tmuously for sixteen years, when he dfl clined further service. He ran as PjmH dential Elector for the State at Large Georgia, on the Douglass and Johnsfl ticket in 1860; was elected to the Sec« sion Convention in Georgia in 1861; cM posed and voted against dinance of Secession in body—but gave it his support it had been passed, against tash judH ment as to its policy; was elected by thH convention to the Confederate CongreS which met at Montgomery, Ala., FefaK ary 4,1861, and was chosen Vice dent under the Provisional GovernmeM by that Congress; was elected Vice PrfH dent of the Confederate States soy term of six years, under what was temH the permanent Government, in 1861; visited th* State of Virginia mission under the Confederate Gov«M ment in April, 1861, upon the of that State; was one of the CHnmir ers on the part of the Confederate QB! ernment at the Hampton) Roads eonßl ence in February, 1865; was the Senate of the United States ip |lß|| by the first Legislature convened isß the new Constitution, made unde<H| Johnson policy, but was not allowedßH take his seat; was elected to the 1B ty-third Congress in 1873; was the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-seventh Congresses, LdstßH he was elected Governor of Georgia, SB regular Democrat, by a majority of 357 over his Independent DemocraiiqßH ponent Mr. Stephens was a man of ble constitution, and for most of his SB vas a constant sufferer. In spite of BH poor health, his clear and vigorous iS|| lect enabled hi n to keep at the fronß& public affaire. He was a highly iS ' lectrial man, a severe student, close thß|| er and a fine constitutional lawyer. ,BH Stephens’ influence in public affairs ■ always beneficial and elevating. Heß||| a real statesman, and, excepting his neetdon with the Confederacy, a patriot