David Ernest Duke (July 1, 1950) - The former Senator of Louisiana, the son of famous World War II general David H. Duke. He served the state as its junior senator from 1996 to 2008 until he was defeated in a landslide victory against his Whig opponent Ray Nagin, known before then as the Mayor of New Orleans who was famous throughout the state for cutting down on crime.
The Whigs were already dead by the Civil War, and while they might make a comeback in the south, Louisiana is not viably part of the Confederacy after Mississippi and the Black Belt break off.
Carter Glass (1858-1918) - Confederate politician who was the last democratically elected President of the Confederate States of America. The second youngest of six children and born in Lynchburg, Virginia, his mother died when he was just two and his father was a Confederate soldier who was killed fighting Steve Burbridge's
Union Army of Appalachia, after which him and his siblings were taken in by George Rogers Clark Floyd, the brother of John B. Floyd, who his father had served under in the War of Southern Secession. While being raised by Floyd, a Catholic, he converted to Catholicism, but became an Episcopalian as an adult. At the age of 19, he began working for the Atlantic & Kentucky Railroad as a clerk.
Glass's political views were shaped by these formative experiences; growing up around war veterans and having had his father killed by unionist militias, he developed a hatred of the "Yankees and n***ers", while his experience at the financially troubled Atlantic & Kentucky and the issue of Virginia's immense debt incurred by public works forged his fiscal conservatism. He became active in Conservative Party
* circles and became a State Senator before his election to Congress in 1900. In 1908 he resigned to accept nomination as Secretary of the Treasury, in which role he served until President Wilson took office and replace him in 1910. Later that year, he was elected back to his old Congressional seat, which he was reelected to in 1912 and 1914.
With Wilson barred from running for reelection and the public increasingly angry at the Democrats for dragging the country into the Great War (1910-1916), which had resulted in the United States declaring war in 1912 and the declaration of several independent black republics and a Second Republic of Texas in 1914 and 1915 as the Confederate position began to worsen, Glass easily won the wartime 1915 Presidential Election. Torn between his distaste for the centralized government required to fight a modern war and his hatred for the US, the military realities and public anger forced him to join his British, French, and Russian allies in declaring a ceasefire
In negotiations in US-held Nashville, Tennessee, Glass was forced to accept the independence of the Mississippi as the black-dominated Mississippi People's Republic, the independence of Texas, cession of Arkansas and Louisiana to the US, and a five-year gradual abolition of slavery in those areas it was not already banned
**. Never the less, he felt that the Confederacy had been bled dry of the potential to make war and that the people would not accept anything but peace, and signed the Treaty of Nashville in January of 1917, leading to the outbreak of riots and the public calling Glass a traitor. Finally, on Christmas Day 1917, while Glass was at his home in Lynchburg, General Henry Pinckney McCain ordered the Confederate Army into Richmond, capturing the cabinet and Vice President Ellison D. Smith, and storming the Presidential Mansion, resulting in the death of one guard, after which McCain proclaimed himself President, placing Glass under house arrest. Glass was shot several weeks later and buried near his home, although his fate would not be revealed until after the fall of the ruling junta decades later.
*The Conservative Party was one of the two major parties in the Confederacy, along with the Democrats and the much smaller Whigs, having coalesced around die-hard state's rights advocates opposed to Jefferson Davis' centralizing policies during the war. It became more prominent as some upper south states began contemplating abolition in the last two decades of the 20th century.
**Of the thirteen states of the CSA, only Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia had passed manumission bills and only in Kentucky had all slaves been freed.
