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Prominent War Democrats included:
  • John Brough , Governor of Ohio .

  • Ben Butler , Congressman from Massachusetts; general

  • John Adams Dix , of New York. Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury, general

  • Stephen A. Douglas , Senator from Illinois; Democratic Party's northern candidate in the presidential election of 1860; he died when the war was just a few weeks old.

  • Ulysses S. Grant , storekeeper in Illinois; general

  • Joseph Holt , Kentucky; Buchanan's Secretary of War; Lincoln's Judge-Advocate General of the Army

  • Andrew Johnson , U.S. senator and then military governor of Tennessee , elected Vice President in 1864; President 1865-69.

  • John A. Logan , Congressman from Illinois; general

  • George B. McClellan , railroad president; general; Democratic presidential nominee in 1864

  • Joel Parker , Governor of New Jersey

  • David Tod , Governor of Ohio

  • Edwin M. Stanton , Ohio; Buchanan's Attorney General; Lincoln's Secretary of War


The term is also used, albeit not as widely, to describe Democrats who support President George W. Bush 's prosecution of the War On Terror following the 9/11/01 terrorist attacks. Some prominent modern-day "war Democrats" include Joseph Lieberman , Zell Miller , and Dick Gephardt .


REFERENCE

  • Silbey, Joel H. ''A Respectable Minority: The Democratic Party in the Civil War Era, 1860-1868'' (1977)