List of Secession Commissioners

A List of the Secession Commissioners¹

by

Philip West (original research) and James F. Epperson (HTML encoding)

(At this point in time [7/23/2026] everything should be correct and functional except the five footnotes, which are supposed to be---and eventually will be---hot links)

Mississippi				Source	Website?
1	William Wirt Adams	assigned to	Louisiana	A	yes
2	Fulton Anderson		Virginia	A, F, H	yes
3	Walker Brooke²		Virginia	A, K
4	George R. Fall		Arkansas	A
5	Winfield Scott Featherston		Kentucky	A
6	Judge Henry Dickinson		Delaware	A, G
7	George Strother Gaines		Florida	A
8	Judge Alexander Hamilton Handy		Maryland	A	yes
9	William Littleton Harris		Georgia	A	yes
10	Charles Edward Hooker		South Carolina	A, B, G
11	Joseph Warren Matthews		Alabama	A, B
12	Horace Hill Miller		Texas	A
13	Daniel Renner Russell		Missouri	A, L
14	Jacob Thompson		North Carolina	A, B	yes
15	Thomas Jesse Wharton		Tennessee	A
16	Thomas William White		Georgia	A, C

Alabama				Source	Website?
1	Edward C. Bullock	assigned to	Florida	B, E
2	James Martin Calhoun		Texas	B, D	yes
3	David Clopton		Delaware	B	yes
4	William Cooper		Missouri	B
5	Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry		Maryland	B	yes
6	John Archer Elmore, Jr.		South Carolina	B, A, G
7	Isham Warren Garrott		North Carolina	B, G	yes
8	Francis Meriwether Gilmer		Virginia	B
9	Stephen Fowler Hale		Kentucky	B	yes
10	Arthur Francis Hopkins		Virginia	B
11	David Hubbard		Arkansas	B
12	Edmund W. Pettus		Mississippi	B, A
13	John Gill Shorter		Georgia	B, C	yes
14	Robert Hardy Smith		North Carolina	B	yes
15	Leroy Pope Walker		Tennessee	B
16	John Anthony Winston		Louisiana	B, I	yes

South Carolina				Source	Website?
1	Milledge Luke Bonham³	assigned to	Mississippi	G
2	Armistead Burt³		Mississippi	G, A
3	Andrew Pickens Calhoun		Alabama	G, B
4	John L. Manning		Louisiana	G, I
5	John McQueen		Texas	G, D	yes
6	James Lawrence Orr		Georgia	G, C
7	John Smith Preston		Virginia	F, H, J	yes
8	Albertus Chambers Spain		Arkansas	G
9	Leonidas W. Spratt		Florida	G, E	yes

Georgia				Source	Website?
1	Hiram Parks Bell	assigned to	Tennessee	C
2	Henry Lewis Benning		Virginia	C, F, H	yes
3	David C. Campbell		Delaware	C
4	Dr. William C. Daniell		Kentucky	C
5	Luther Judson Glenn		Missouri	C	yes
6	Samuel Hall		North Carolina	C, M	yes
7	David P. Hill		Arkansas	C
8	Henry Rootes Jackson⁴		Kentucky	C
9	John W. A. Sanford⁵		Texas/Alabama	C/B	yes
10	William Joseph Vason		Louisiana	C, I
11	Augustus Romaldus Wright		Maryland	C

Louisiana				Source	Website?
1	George Williamson	assigned to	Texas	I, D	yes

Sources:

The original documents cited in B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J, and K may be viewed at the HathiTrust Digital Library. Source A can be found on the Internet Archive. Source F is a transcription of the original document. Source L is an original document. All sources are searchable, and the links take you to the specific online sites.

A. The Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Mississippi. Called Session, January, 1861.

B. The History and Debates of the Convention of the People of Alabama, Begun and held in the City of Montgomery, on the Seventh Day of January, 1861 in which is Preserved the Speeches of the Secret Sessions, and Many Valuable State Papers.

C. The Journal of the Public and Secret Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Georgia, Held in Milledgeville and Savannah in 1861, Together with the Ordinances Adopted.

D. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861, Edited from the Original in the Department of State by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian.

E. Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention of the People of Florida Begun and Held at the Capitol in the City of Tallassee, on Thursday, January 3, A. D. 1861.

F. Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention of 1861, February – May 1 in Four Volumes.

G. Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina, Held in 1860, 1861 and 1862, Together with the Ordinances, Reports, Resolutions, Etc..

H. Journal of the Acts and Proceedings of a General Convention of the State of Virginia, Assembled at Richmond, on Wednesday, the Thirteenth day of February, Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-one.

I. Official Journal of the Proceedings of the Convention of the State of Louisiana.

J. Address of Hon. John S. Preston, Commissioner from South Carolina, to the Convention of Virginia, February 19, 1861.

K. Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865. Volume 1.

L. Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Missouri at the First Session of the Twenty-First General Assembly, begun and held at the City of Jefferson, on Monday, the thirty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty.

M. Journal of the Senate of the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina at its Session of 1860-’61.

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Date added to website: July 23, 2026