[DOC] [TLE] Pre Civil War Peace Conference | HistoryNet [PAR] Nov 8, 2010 ... To no one's surprise, Tyler was named one of Virginia's five peace ... the 
Washington Peace Conference gaveled into session at a former ... At their first 
session, they provocatively elected Tyler not chairman but presidentalmost as 
if ..... Complete Civil War, 1861-1865 (Black Dog and Leventhal, 2010). [DOC] [TLE] Interview: Mark Tooley, Author of 'The Peace That Almost Was: The ... [PAR] Mar 21, 2016 ... It was the last major attempt to avert disunion and the Civil War. ... statesman who 
had been in retirement for 16 years, former President John Tyler. ... Washington 
as a model when he took the chair at the Washington Peace Conference. ... At 
least for a few weeks in 1861, John Tyler tried to fill that vacuum. [DOC] [TLE] John Tyler - Wikipedia [PAR] John Tyler (March 29, 1790  January 18, 1862) was the tenth President of the 
United States ... When the American Civil War began in 1861, Tyler sided with the 
.... was delivering the funeral address for former president Jefferson, a Virginian, 
.... Tyler attended the convention and was with the Virginia delegation, although... [DOC] [TLE] Jefferson Davis - Wikipedia [PAR] Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808  December 6, 1889) was an American 
politician who was a U.S. Representative and Senator from Mississippi, the 23rd 
U.S. Secretary of War, and the President of the Confederate States of America 
during the American Civil War. ... Ex-Confederates came to appreciate his role in 
the war, seeing him as a... [DOC] [TLE] The Real Lost Cause: The Peace Convention of 1861 - JStor [PAR] paper to the Civil War Round Table of the District of ... Peace Convention in 1861 
(D. Appleton & Co., 1864), p. .... ence of the Border States, the Virginia legis- ... 
urging every reasonable means "to avert so ... ex-President John Tyler and four 
others .... Its chair- man was the able and conservative James. Guthrie of 
Kentucky. [DOC] [TLE] John Tyler | U.S. Presidents [PAR] Information, facts, and images on the 10th U.S. President John Tyler. ... Tyler tried
, and failed, to conclude a treaty with the British to set the boundaries ... Became 
the the sponsor and chairman of the Virginia Peace Convention held in 
Washington, D.C. in February 1861 to find means to prevent the Civil War 
between the... [DOC] [TLE] The Secession Movement 18601861  Chapter 12 [PAR] Mar 6, 2013 ... Virginia had requested a response from all states, "whether slaveholding or ... 
Most of the Northern state legislatures professed a desire to prevent the ... 
altogether wrong and preferred compromise to civil war; but in every case they ... 
Ex-President Tyler was elected chairman of the convention, and James... [DOC] [TLE] John Tyler dies - Jan 18, 1862 - HISTORY.com [PAR] Tyler, whowasborn in Virginia in 1790, served asa U.S. congressman and as 
governor of his home state ... Founding Fathers and Pre-Civil War Presidents. [DOC] [TLE] Free Flashcards about AMERICANA - StudyStack [PAR] ON SEPT, 27, 1779 THIS EX-CHIEF JUSTICE OF NEW YORK WAS NAMED 
MINISTER ..... IN 1861 THIS PRESIDENT FROM VIRGINIA WAS CHAIRMAN OF 
A PEACE CONVENTION THAT TRIED TO AVERT CIVIL WAR, JOHN TYLER. [DOC] [TLE] Abraham Lincoln and Secession - Abraham Lincoln's Classroom [PAR] Lincoln tried to avoid adding fuel to the attacks on him. .... Shortly after the 1860 
presidential election, Mr. Lincoln talked to one visitor about yielding ... would 
soon bring the secession of the Lower South and the 'awful calamity of civil war. 
...... of border states at the Washington Peace Convention at the end of February 
1861. [DOC] [TLE] There were 5 former presidents at the time of the Civil War. What ... [PAR] Oct 21, 2013 ... 1861 points  54 comments ... William Harrison, 9th President, didn't live to see 
the Civil War since he died of .... He tried to broker a peace deal in Virginia ( 
Virginia Peace Convention) but that feel apart instantly.

Question: In 1861 this ex-president from Virginia was chairman of a peace convention that tried to avert civil war
Answer: John Tyler