Raynors 2020-05 Putnal
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TOOMBS, Robert Augustus (1810-1885) was an American lawyer, planter, and politician from Georgia who became one of the organizers of the Confederacy and served as its first Secretary of State. He served in Jefferson Davis' cabinet as well as in the Confederate States Army, but later became one of Davis' critics. He fled the United States after the Confederate defeat, returning in 1867 after his daughter's death. He regained political power in Georgia as Congressional Reconstruction ended. A slaveholder, he found common ground with fellow-Georgian Alexander H. Stephens and advocated states' rights and the extension of slavery to western territories. Free Franked cover "R.Toombs" as United States Senator from Georgia, addressed to Alexander H. Stephens in Crawfordsville, Georgia.
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