Vice-President of the Confederacy

April 17, 1861

Who is Alexander Stephens?
Alexander Stephens, the Vice-President of the Confederacy, was born near Crawfordsville, Georgia. He graduated from Franklin College in 1832 and served in the Georgia state house. Stephens supported the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.

After Lincoln was elected, he did not want Georgia to seceed, however, he soon acceped it. After, he was elected Vice-President of the Confederacy.