Confederate Speakers of the House?

AdmiralBlake

assuming the CSA wins the civil war (please don't discuss this part) which political figures would be likely to become speakers of the CS house of representatives?

ive already considered OTL speakers of the house from the south, Rayburn, Carlisle, Garner, Bankhead etc...
im more interested in those southern representatives who for one reason or another didn't fully prosper otl, especially those in the 1870s-1910s
 
TheKnightIrish

TheKnightIrish

AdmiralBlake said:
assuming the CSA wins the civil war (please don't discuss this part) which political figures would be likely to become speakers of the CS house of representatives?

ive already considered OTL speakers of the house from the south, Rayburn, Carlisle, Garner, Bankhead etc...
im more interested in those southern representatives who for one reason or another didn't fully prosper otl, especially those in the 1870s-1910s
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Why not Jimmy Kemper, former speaker of the Virginia House, assuming no Gettysburg injury?
 

FrozenMix

Banned
After the Civil War, any Confederate government is going to have war heroes playing prominent parts in it, and that kind of success might make a Speaker if one is bombastic enough, which there was certainly no lack of.

Someone like Beauregard, Stuart, or even a political general that achieved some measure of success and glory like Barksdale or Kemper, could very well rise through the political ranks at some point.

Maybe Breckenridge has another go at politics.
 

David T

FrozenMix said:
After the Civil War, any Confederate government is going to have war heroes playing prominent parts in it, and that kind of success might make a Speaker if one is bombastic enough, which there was certainly no lack of.

Someone like Beauregard, Stuart, or even a political general that achieved some measure of success and glory like Barksdale or Kemper, could very well rise through the political ranks at some point.

Maybe Breckenridge has another go at politics.
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Of course the question is just what state he will represent if Kentucky is not included in the Confederacy in the final peace settlement...
 
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