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On January 10, 1861, the delegates formally adopted the Ordinance of Secession, which declared that the "nation of Florida" had withdrawn from the "American union." [ 9 ] Florida was the third state to secede, following South Carolina and Mississippi .
An Ordinance of Secession was the name given to multiple resolutions [1] drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861, at or near the beginning of the Civil War, by which each seceding slave-holding Southern state or territory formally declared secession from the United States of America. South Carolina, Mississippi, Georgia, and Texas also issued ...
1.2 Ordinance of Secession and the 1861 Constitution of Florida. ... Florida's Early Constitution The Florida Constitutions of 1838, 1861, 1865, 1868, and 1885 are ...
The 36th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1859, to March 4, 1861, during the third and fourth years of James Buchanan 's presidency.
Ordinance of Secession, 1861; Civil War, 1861–1865; ... and the Unionist movement that was a minority in Florida between 1861 and 1862 increased notably during the ...
Angela Sylvania Moreno. Signature. Stephen R. Mallory by Mathew Brady, between 1855 and 1865. Stephen Russell Mallory (1812 – November 9, 1873) was a Democratic senator from Florida from 1851 to the secession of his home state and the outbreak of the American Civil War. For much of that period, he was chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs.
On February 4, 1861, George Ward was seated in the Montgomery Convention on secession. Ward, along with Abraham K. Allison, led a faction of the convention who wished to delay secession to see if Georgia and Alabama would secede first. If they did not, then the state should wait for Florida voters to decide on the ordinance of secession.
James Byeram Owens ( c. 1816 – August 1, 1889) was a slaveowner and American politician who served as a Deputy from Florida to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1862. He mounted legal arguments in defense of secession based on an originalist interpretation of the U.S. Constitution [1] and Southern arguments in ...