Francis Preston Blair junior

Francis Preston Blair

Francis Preston Blair Jr. (* 19. Februar 1821 in Lexington, Kentucky; † 9. Juli 1875 in St. Louis, Missouri) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und Generalmajor der Unionsarmee während des Sezessionskrieges.

Familie

Blairs Vater war Francis Preston Blair, u. a. Herausgeber des Congressional Globe, und seine Mutter Eliza Violet Gist Blair. Er war Bruder von Montgomery Blair, des Bürgermeisters von St. Louis. 1847 heiratete Blair Appoline Alexander, mit der er acht Kinder zeugte.[1]

Leben

Francis Preston Blair

Blair studierte an der Princeton University Rechtswissenschaft und wurde Anwalt. Er beteiligte sich am Mexikanisch-Amerikanischen Krieg als Freiwilliger und war in der Folge Attorney General des New-Mexico-Territoriums sowie von 1852 bis 1856 Abgeordneter im Repräsentantenhaus von Missouri. Zu dieser Zeit gehörte er zu den Anhängern der Free Soil Party. Im Jahr 1856 wurde er als Republikaner in das Repräsentantenhaus der Vereinigten Staaten gewählt, wo er vom 4. März 1857 bis zum 3. März 1859 den ersten Wahlbezirk von Missouri vertrat; später gehörte er noch dreimal dem Kongress an.

Blair trat 1861 in die Nordstaatenarmee ein und bekam unter General Ulysses S. Grant das Kommando einer Division, die unter anderem in der Schlacht um Vicksburg und in der Schlacht von Chattanooga mitkämpfte. Unter General William T. Sherman befehligte er eine Einheit in den letzten Schlachten um North Carolina, South Carolina und Georgia. Nach dem Krieg kandidierte er 1868 als Mitglied der Demokraten an der Seite von Horatio Seymour erfolglos für das Amt des US-Vizepräsidenten. Er war Sklavenhalter gewesen und sprach sich dagegen aus, Schwarzen das Wahlrecht zu geben[2]. Vom 20. Januar 1871 bis zum 3. März 1873 war er neben Carl Schurz US-Senator für Missouri. Danach fungierte er noch für kurze Zeit als Versicherungsbeauftragter dieses Staates, ehe er im Juli 1875 verstarb.

Literatur

Weblinks

Commons: Francis Preston Blair – Sammlung von Bildern, Videos und Audiodateien

Einzelnachweise

  1. Christopher Phillips: Blair, Francis Preston, Jr. In: American National Biography Online.
  2. Julie Zauzmer Weil, Adrian Blanco, Leo Dominguez, More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. Washington Post, 10. Januar 2022

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Francis Preston Blair (February 19, 1821 – July 9, 1875) was an American politician and Union Army general during the American Civil War.

He ran for vice president in 1868 but lost the election.

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had virtually two representativesin the Cabinet. Francis P. Blair, Jr., brotherof Montgomery, therefore found no great dif-ficulty in having the command of the arsenalgiven to Captain Nathaniel Lyon, not only adevoted soldier, but a man of thorough anti-slavery convictions. Lyon was eager to forestallthe secession conspiracy by extensive prepar-ation and swift repression; but the depart- ment commander, General Harney, and theordnance officer, Major Hagner, whom Lyonhad displaced, both of more slow and cautioustemper, and reflecting the local political con-servatism, thwartetl and hampered Lyon andBlair, who from the beginning felt and actedin concert. No great difficulty grew out ofthis antagonism till the Presidents call fortroops; then it created discussion, delay, wantof cooperation. Blair could not get his volun-teers mustered into service, and GovernorYates of Illinois could get no arms. The Pres-ident finally grew impatient. Harney wasrelieved and called to Washington, and Lyon
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MAJOR-GENERAL FRANCIS 1. BLAIR, JK (^KOM A PMOTOt^RArH BY BRADV.) directed to muster-in and ami the four Mis-souri regiments of volunteers with all expe-dition, and to send the extra arms to Spring-field, Illinois, while three Illinois regimentswere ordered to St. Louis to assist in guard-ing the arsenal. These orders were issued in Washington onApril 20. By this time St. Louis, like thewhole Union, was seething with excitement,except that public opinion was more evenlydivided than elsewhere. There were Unionspeeches and rebel speeches; cheers for Lin- 64 ABRAHAM LFXCOLX. coin and cheers for Davis; Union flagsand rebel flags; Union headquarters andrebel headquarters. With this also therewas mingled a certain antipathy of na-tionality, all the Ciermans being deter-mined Lnionists. The antagonism quick-ly grew into armed organizations. TheUnionists were mustered, armed, anddrilled at the arsenal as United Statesvolunteers. On the other hand GovernorJackson, having decided on revolution,

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