Talk:Alexander H. Stephens

message: Opening the page. Does anyone have any ideas about further improvements? Ezratrumpet 06:09, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Stephens was 4'11, a notable height- it should be mentioned- thats freakishly small.
Men were shorter in general in those days.  Alec Stevens at 4'11 would have been like Michael J. Fox today -- notably small but hardly a dwarf. Cranston Lamont 01:12, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Height 

message: Stephens was Provisional VP of the CSA: February 18, 1861 to February 22, 1862, then VP of the CSA: February 22, 1862 to May 10, 1865. This should be shown in the Infobox. GoodDay 21:10, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Provisional Vice President of the CSA & Vice President of the CSA 

message: Removed "Traitor" from nationality. That is out of place polemic.
Taylor did not actually block the Compromise of 1850. The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor & Millard Fillmore by Elbert B. Smith refutes this legend.
Deleted extended quotes and discussion of Cornerstone Speech, which has its own article.
Many style tweaks (Representative for "congressman". etc).
--Rich Rostrom (Talk) 21:21, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Various fixes applied 

message: Would it be true to say that Stephens was technically President of the Confederacy for six days given that Jefferson had relinquished that office six days earlier?--The Shadow Treasurer (talk) 06:25, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I too, am wondering about that. GoodDay (talk) 15:04, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technically President 

message: This is the case for moving this article, Alexander Stephens, to Alexander H. Stephens. I do not expect this to be controversial, but I shall go into detail regardless.
According to WP:COMMONNAME:
Articles are normally titled using the most common English-language name of the person or thing that is the subject of the article. In determining what this name is, we follow the usage of reliable sources, such as those used as references for the article.
It is easy to establish that Stephens is most commonly referred to with his middle initial (i.e., Alexander H. Stephens), and not without it (i.e., Alexander Stephens, the present name of this article).
Observe all of the references used in the article which make use of his name:
* Rudolph R. von Abele, Alexander H. Stephens: A Biography (1946)
* Henry Cleveland, Alexander H. Stephens in Public and Private, with Letters and Speeches (1866)
* William C. Davis, The Union that Shaped the Confederacy: Robert Toombs & Alexander H. Stephens (2002)
* Richard Malcolm Johnston & William Hand Browne, Life of Alexander H. Stephens (1878).
* Louis Pendleton, Alexander H. Stephens (1908)
* Thomas E. Schott, Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia: A Biography (1988)
Without fail, they all use the middle initial. Another source, Trent's Southern Statesmen of the Old Régime, also uses the initial, its fifth chapter being entitled "Alexander H. Stephens and Robert Toombs". If necessary, additional reliable sources could be mentioned—e.g., Britannica.
A search engine test is also decisive. With the search "restrict[ed] the results to pages written in English, and exclud[ing] the word 'Wikipedia, per WP:COMMONNAME, the results are 800,000 for Alexander H. Stephens and 83,400 for Alexander Stephens. With some additional phrases to eliminate any false positives, the count is 97,900 for Alexander H. Stephens and 23,700 for Alexander Stephens.
I believe I have more than sufficiently justified the move, and shall now proceed to request the redirect Alexander H. Stephens be deleted. --darolew (talk) 05:55, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving this article to Alexander H. Stephens 

message: Dear all, 
There's a small error that's beyond my knowledge to fix.  Currently the article reads: 
In 1851 he was re-elected as a Unionist, in 1853 as a Whig (from the 8th District), 
 and in 1855 and 1857 as a Democrat.  The link for Unionist goes to the page for the Constitutional Union Party (United States)   Here's the problem: That Constitutional Union Party didn't exist in 1851.  Possibly Stephens was involved with a different, earlier Constitutional Union Party which doesn't yet have a page.  See the disambiguation page.  Oaklandguy (talk) 21:02, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small error that I can't fix: Unionist party? 

message: An IP editor removed, without explanation, two paragraphs of unsourced material.  The material was restored by an editor who assumed, in good faith I assume, that this action was vandalism.  In fact, the material removed should have been removed. It claimed, among other things, that the U.S. President had been put under house arrest, the Secretary of War was jailed, and the U.S. military overthrew civilian governments while the entire south was placed under military dictatorship.
This material goes beyond even an extreme Dunning School version of history. It does not belong in the article. It was added w/o explanation by another IP on May 3. Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 20:05, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. TJRC (talk) 20:43, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  IP Edit not vandalism 

message: This sentence must be the result of some poorly targeted copy/paste/delete:
"During the convention he reminded his fellow delegates that Republicans were a minority in Congress (especially allowing northern states to nullify the Fugitive Slave Law with "personal liberty laws." "  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.149.67.121 (talk) 15:35, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence doesn't' make sense 

message: This was his main post-war testament, justifying the Southern cause. A few words on its content and critical reception would be appropriate. Valetude (talk) 19:54, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  'A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States' 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Eric Foner (The Fiery Trial, p.153) briefly quotes an exchange of letters between Lincoln and Stephens possibly dated around December 1860, and characterizes Stephens as at the time still anti-secession. Was Stephens just representing himself so in the correspondence? ELSchissel (talk) 03:31, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foner ; Lincoln 

message: Perhaps I'm looking to hard into this. But was Stephens provisional acting president of the Confederacy, from February 11 to 18, 1861 & later acting president of the Confederacy, from May 5 to 11, 1865? GoodDay (talk) 16:41, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stephens status, in Feb 1861 & May 1865 

message: The text of the article states: 
"Stephens was re-elected from the 7th District as a Whig in 1844, 1846, and 1848, as a Unionist in 1851, and again as a Whig (from the 8th District) in 1853. In 1855 and 1857, his re-elections came as a Democrat."
The word "Unionist" links to the Constitutional Union Party, which did not exist until 1860.  That is one problem.  But, furthermore, the infobox states:
"Political party
* Whig (1836–1851)
* Unionist (1851–1860)
* Constitutional Union (1860–1861)
* Democratic (1861–1883)"
Here Unionist links to Unionist Party (United States), which is proper.  (I will change it in a second.)  But, here is the bigger problem, you see conflicting dates on political party affiliation.  Was he a Dem in 1855?  Or a Unionist?  Was he a Whig in 1853 or a Unionist?  Etc.  (Or was Unionist an affiliation and not a distinct political party?)  TuckerResearch (talk) 17:45, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Party affiliations