Talk:William K. Sebastian

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Columbia College?[edit]

I can't find any information on a "Columbia College" in Tennessee except for Columbia State Community College, but that was founded in 1966. Lollerskates 18:00, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Why reinstated?[edit]

Of all of the senators expelled for supporting the Confederacy (see List_of_United_States_senators_expelled_or_censured), Sebastian is the only one whose expulsion was reversed. Does anyone know why? Manning (talk) 17:35, 27 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

response[edit]

I found this https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/expulsion_cases/036CivilWarCases1_expulsion.htm

"Nine of the expelled senators participated actively in the Confederacy as senators, military officers, or diplomats. Most returned to private life after the war, although James Chesnut and Thomas Clingman attended the National Democratic Convention in New York in 1868. Robert M.T. Hunter, a delegate to the Hampton Roads peace conference with Abraham Lincoln in 1865, was imprisoned briefly at the close of the war. After the end of Reconstruction in 1877, he secured positions in the Virginia state government. A.O.P. Nicholson served as chief justice of the Tennessee supreme court from 1870-1876.

Only William K. Sebastian did not engage in confederate politics or military service. He returned to his home in Arkansas, resumed the practice of law, and did not support the Confederacy. Shortly before his death in 1865, Sebastian moved to Memphis, Tennessee. In 1877, the Senate, convinced by Sebastian's passive demeanor before and during the Civil War that he was not an active conspirator against the Union, revoked the expulsion order and gave full compensation to his children."

Best Regards — Preceding unsigned comment added by 214.3.11.2 (talk) 15:16, 10 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was PAGE MOVED. Pre-merge history swapped back to previous title. -GTBacchus^(talk) 02:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

William King Sebastian → William K. Sebastian — From a Google search, the man appears to have more often been referred to as "William K. Sebastian" than "William King Sebastian", including in a New York Times article] published during his lifetime. -Rrius (talk) 03:12, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Note: The William K. Sebastian article was merged into this one in March 2006,^[1][2] so the edit history will have to be preserved. Jafeluv (talk) 00:20, 20 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Category:American slave owners[edit]

No mention of slave-owning whatever in the article. I feel that this category should be restricted to people whose slave-owning history was notable in itself. Valetude (talk) 16:05, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]