This last name belonged to the oldest man ever nominated on a major presidential ticket, an 80-year-old West Virginia senator who served as Alton J. Parker's VP nominee in 1904.
This last name belonged to the oldest man ever nominated on a major presidential ticket, an 80-year-old West Virginia senator who served as Alton J. Parker's VP nominee in 1904. A soldier with this surname became the first black general in the U.S. Army; that man's son of this last name organized the desegregation of the Air Force for Harry Truman. A Supreme Court Justice with this surname unexpectedly resigned from the Electoral Commission of 1877 to take a Senate seat, enabling Rutherford B. Hayes to win. That author of the majority opinion in Ex Parte Merryman served as Abraham Lincoln's (*) campaign manager in the election of 1860. The commander of the Tuskegee Airmen bore this last name, along with a colonel who was wounded in the foot while commanding the Mississippi Rifles at the Battle of Buena Vista. For 10 points, identify this last name of the only president of the Confederacy.
This last name belonged to the oldest man ever nominated on a major presidential ticket, an 80-year-old West Virginia senator who served as Alton J. Parker's VP nominee in 1904.
Davis [or Henry Davis, David Davis, Benjamin Davis or Jefferson Davis]