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CLEMENT VALLANDIGHAM

Clement Laird Vallandighma was an American lawyer and politician. Je was born in 1822 and died in 1871. A lawyer and active Democratic politician in Ohio, he served in the Legislature of that State, and was Congressman from 1857 until 1863. He bitterly opposed the Government as the American Civil War progressed, and became noted as the most extreme of Northern sympathizers with the Confederacy. General Ambrose E. Burnside arrested him, and he was banished. From the Confederate States he went to Canada, and while there was nominated for Governor by the Ohio Democrats in 1863. He was defeated by Brough by a majority of 100,000. The following year he was a member of the Democratic National Convention.
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