Though he and his colleagues Howell Cobb and Robert Toombs strongly opposed Southern secession until after the election of 1860, he later justified it in his memoir A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States.  
This man first entered Congress after Mark Cooper resigned, and he won subsequent election with the Whig party.  During his sixteen years in the House, this diminutive man earned the nickname "The Great Commoner." Though he and his colleagues Howell Cobb and Robert Toombs strongly opposed Southern secession until after the election of 1860, he later justified it in his memoir A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States.  A Georgia native and the leading representative of the Confederate delegation at the Hampton Roads Conference, this is, FTP, which man who served as the Confederacy's only vice president?
This man first entered Congress after Mark Cooper resigned, and he won subsequent election with the Whig party.  
Alexander Hamilton Stephens