Indiana's Southern Senator: Jesse Bright and the Hoosier Democracy
Without northern doughface Democrats, and northern states like Indiana, the South could not have held dominance in American politics during the sectional crisis. Anchoring the extreme end of the doughface North was Indiana’s slaveholding senator Jesse Bright (his holdings were in Kentucky). Yet, he...
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UKnowledge
2013
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| Online Access: | http://uknowledge.uky.edu/history_etds/12 http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1013&context=history_etds |