Background
HAYNES, Landon Carter was born on December 2, 1816 in Elizabethtown, Tennessee, United States, United States.
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HAYNES, Landon Carter was born on December 2, 1816 in Elizabethtown, Tennessee, United States, United States.
Private school, southern university.
His family background is unknown. He graduated with honors from Washington College in Tennessee in 1836. He read law in the office of Thomas A. R. Nelson and was admitted to the Jonesboro, Tennessee, bar in 1840.
Haynes was married and had two sons. He soon entered politics and became the Democratic leader of east Tennessee. He was a presidential elector in 1844 and 1848.
Elected to the state legislature in 1847, Haynes became speaker of the House in 1849 and also served in the state Senate. In his bid for national office, he lost an election to the U.S. House to Thomas A. R. Nelson in 1859. A John C. Breckinridge elector, in 1860 he was a strong secessionist.
He was elected to the first Confederate Senate because of his reputation as a political leader. In the Senate he was a Davis administration opponent, condemned martial law, and claimed that Tennessee was lost to the Confederacy because of the pro-Eastern military bloc and the incompetence of President Davis. He believed that suspension of habeas corpus would be a subversion of civil authority.
Haynes spoke forcefully for the treatment and release of Union prisoners. He was reelected to the second Senate and came to believe that the war effort was futile. Throughout the war he practiced law and defended many of Tennessee’s citizens who had been condemned for treason.
The war’s end found him residing in Statesville, North Carolina, but he soon removed to Memphis where he practiced law and tried to recoup his fortune which had been lost during the war. Haynes never again held public office.
"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.