Clement Vallandigham was a Presbyterian minister turned lawyer. As the Civil War approached, he became an ardent anti-abolitionist. He supported states’ rights, even though he lived in the Ohio. When the war broke out, he was against it and criticized Pres. Lincoln’s continuing the war. He was the most famous Copperhead which were Democrats who wanted to let the South go. He was a Congressman from 1858 – 1862. In 1862, he was defeated in a landslide as his constituents did not agree with his beliefs. He continued to mouth off, so Lincoln finally had enough and had him exiled to the South. He ended up in Canada. After the war, he returned to Ohio to practice law again. In 1871, he was defending a client who had shot a man in a barroom brawl. His argument was that the shot was an accident. He took the murder weapon and intended to show how easy it was to accidentally discharge the weapon. He did not know it was loaded and shot himself in the abdomen. He died on June 17, 1871.
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