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John Jordan Crittenden (September 10, 1787 – July 26, 1863) was an American statesman and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and twice served as United States Attorney General in the administrations of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore.
John J. Crittenden (born Sept. 10, 1787, near Versailles, Ky., U.S.—died July 26, 1863, Frankfort, Ky.) was an American statesman best known for the so-called Crittenden Compromise (q.v.), his attempt to resolve sectional differences on the eve of the American Civil War.
Dec 2, 2009 · The Crittenden Compromise, proposed by Kentucky Senator John J. Crittenden in 1860, aimed to stave off secession by making slavery permanent in the South.
Thomas Leonidas Crittenden was a Major General in the Civil War and, postbellum, a Lieutenant Colonel. After J.J. flunked out of the U.S. Military Academy, Colonel Crittenden secured a commission for his son and then, because the boy wanted field experience, urged Custer to take him on.
Dec 6, 2021 · The Crittenden Compromise was the creation of John J. Crittenden, a 74-year-old slaveholder and Democratic senator from Kentucky, who emerged with a compromise that he claimed would end the...
Crittenden would serve as governor of Kentucky from 1848 to 1850, again as attorney general from 1850 to 1853, and then again in the Senate from 1854 until 1861. He shifted to the House of Representatives in 1861 as a member of the Unionist Party and served there until March 1863.
John Jordan Crittenden (September 10, 1787 – July 26, 1863) was an American statesman and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. He represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and twice served as United States Attorney General in the administrations of William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and Millard Fillmore.
John Jordan Crittenden. BORN: September 10, 1786 Versailles, Kentucky . DIED: July 26, 1863 (age 75) Frankfort, Kentucky. EDUCATION: Washington and Lee University College of William & Mary (1806) POLITICAL PARTIES: Democratic-Republican National Republican Whig American Constitutional Union Unionist . HIGHLIGHTS: 1803: Moved to Kentucky to ...
The nation faced its greatest crisis. Was a peaceful solution to this crisis still possible? Could Congress take action to avert civil war? One Kentucky senator proposed just such a plan. John Crittenden’s political career began in 1811, when he was elected to Kentucky’s state legislature.
With the threat of Civil War looming on the horizon, Senator John J. Crittenden introduced legislation that would reinstate the Missouri Compromise line, forbid the abolition of slavery on federal land in slaveholding states, compensate owners for runaway slaves, and other amendments to support the institution of slavery.
