Question: Who wrote Alambama's Ordinance of Secession after the March 1861 election of Abraham Lincoln? 
Context: The Ordinance of Secession is the general name given to documents drafted and ratified in 1860 and 1861 by each of the thirteen southern states and the Territory of Arizona formally seceding from the United States of America.  Each state and the Territory ratified its own ordinance of secession, typically by means of a special convention delegation or by a general referendum.  The seceded states formed the Confederate States of America which also claimed the Territory of Arizona, roughly the southern halves of modern Arizona and New Mexico. This bibliography of Abraham Lincoln is a comprehensive list of written and published works about or by Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States.  In terms of primary sources containing Lincoln's letters and writings, scholars rely on "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln", edited by Roy Basler, and others.  It only includes writings by Lincoln, and omits incoming correspondence.  In the six decades since Basler completed his work, some new documents written by Lincoln have been discovered.  Currently, a project is underway at the Papers of Abraham Lincoln to provide "a freely accessible comprehensive electronic edition of documents written by and to Abraham Lincoln".  The Papers of Abraham Lincoln completed Series I of their project "The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln" in 2000.  They electronically launched "The Law Practice of Abraham Lincoln, Second Edition" in 2009, and published a selective print edition of this series.  At present they are engaged in locating, digitizing, and transcribing documents for Series II (non-legal, pre-presidential materials) and Series III (presidential materials). The William Lowndes Yancey Law Office is located at the corner of Washington and Perry Streets in Montgomery, Alabama.  It served as the law offices for one of the South's leading advocates of secession from the United States, William Lowndes Yancey, from 1846 until his death in 1863.  He joined with John A. Elmore to form a legal firm after his resignation from Congress on 1 September 1846.  Yancey wrote Alabama's Ordinance of Secession after the election of Abraham Lincoln and subsequently served as the Confederacy's Commissioner to England and France. The Peace Conference of 1861 was a meeting of 131 leading American politicians in February 1861, at the Willard's Hotel in Washington, DC, on the eve of the American Civil War.  The success of President Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party in the 1860 presidential elections led to a flurry of political activity.  In much of the South, elections were held to select delegates to special conventions to consider secession from the Union.  In Congress, efforts were made in both the House of Representatives and the Senate to reach compromise over the issues relating to slavery that were dividing the nation.  The conference was the final effort by the individual states to resolve the crisis.  With the seven states of the Cotton South already committed to secession, the emphasis to preserve the Union peacefully focused on the eight slaveholding states representing the Upper and Border South, with the states of Virginia and Kentucky playing key roles. Harold Holzer (born February 5, 1949) is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War Era.  He won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and four other awards in 2015 for his book, "Lincoln and the Power of the Press".  Holzer served for nine years as co-chairman of the United States Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC), appointed to the commission by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and elected co-chair by his fellow commissioners.  In June 2010, he was elected chairman of the ALBC's successor organization, The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation, which he led through 2016.  In his professional career, Holzer serves as the Jonathan F. Fanton Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.  He retired in 2015 as Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where for 23 years he was chief spokesman and held responsibility for government relations, admissions, visitor services, and multicultural audience development at the nation's largest art institution.  He is now a Trustee of The Metropolitan Museum, representing the New York City Comptroller.  From 2012 to 2015, Holzer served as well as a Roger Hertog Fellow at the New-York Historical Society.  In 2016-17 he served as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at The Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought at Yeshiva University.  He was also a script consultant to the Steven Spielberg film, "Lincoln", and wrote the official young readers' companion book to the movie. Francis Burton Craige (March 13, 1811 – December 30, 1875) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina; born near Salisbury, North Carolina, March 13, 1811; attended a private school in Salisbury, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1829; editor and proprietor of the Western Carolinian 1829–1831; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Salisbury; one of the last borough representatives in the State house of representatives 1832–1834; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds (Thirty-third Congress); delegate to the State secession convention in 1861 and introduced the Ordinance of Secession in the form in which it was adopted; delegate to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States which met in Richmond, Virginia, in July 1861; died in Concord, North Carolina, while attending the courts of that county, December 30, 1875; interment in Old English Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina. Jacob Samils Haldeman (October 13, 1821 – November 1889) was an American banker, politician and ambassador.  A resident of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, he served in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Pennsylvania Legislature from 1850 to 1855.  From 1861 to 1864 he was United States Minister Resident to Sweden and Norway.  He was married to Caroline Rosina Hummel (1825-1905), with whom he had two daughters, Elizabeth and Anna Mary.  They also had a third child, who died in infancy.  During the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln both Jacob and Caroline were present.  In March 1861 Lincoln nominated Haldeman as Minister to Sweden and Norway following a suggestion by Simon Cameron. The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation is the successor organization of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC), which was created by Congress and the President of the United States to plan the commemoration of Abraham Lincoln’s 200th birthday in 2009.  The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission sunset on April 30, 2010 The Commonwealth of Virginia was a prominent part of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.  As a slave-holding state, it held a state convention to deal with the secession crisis, and voted against secession on 4 April 1861.  Opinion shifted after 15 April, when U.S. President Abraham Lincoln called for troops from all states still in the Union to put down the rebellion, following the capture of Fort Sumter, and the Virginia convention voted to declare secession from the Union.  (In the Western counties, where there was little slavery, pro-Union sentiment remained strong, and they presently seceded from Virginia as a separate Union state, West Virginia.) Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.  Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest war and perhaps its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis.  In doing so, he preserved the Union, paved the way to the abolition of slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the economy.
Answer: William Lowndes Yancey