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BOUDINOT, Ellas Cornelius was born on August 1, 1835 in Rome, Georgia, United States, United States. Son of Elias and Harriet Ruggles (Gold) Boudinot. His father, the Cherokee Chief Killa-kee-nah, had taken the name of Elias Boudinot as a student in Connecticut.
The younger Boudinot studied civil engineering in Vermont in 1854 and law in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1856. He and his wife, the former Clara Minear, had no children.
Boudinot, a Mason, was associate editor of the Arkansian and editor of the True Democrat in the late 1850s. In 1860, he was chairman of the Arkansas Central Committee of the Democratic party and attended the Democratic state convention. The following year, he was secretary of the Arkansas secession convention and a staunch secessionist.
When the war began, Boudinot helped his uncle, Stand Watie(^. v.), raise a regiment for the Confederacy from the Cherokee Nation. He fought at Oak Hills and at Elkhom as a lieutenant colonel. From 1863 to the end of the war, he served in the Confederate Congress as a delegate from the Indian Territory.
When the war ended, he returned to the Indian Territory. In September 1865, he defended the Cherokee Nation’s role in the war before a congressional committee. In 1867, he operated a tobacco factory, and the following year he negotiated an Indian treaty with the United States.
He lived in Washington, D.C., from 1868 until 1885, and he vigorously pursued Indian claims. He returned to a farm in the Indian Territory, practiced law, and died on September 27,1890.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
