Background
MANN, Ambrose Dudley was born on April 26, 1801 in Hanover Courthouse, Virginia, United States, United States.
Diplomat journalist lawyer politician
MANN, Ambrose Dudley was born on April 26, 1801 in Hanover Courthouse, Virginia, United States, United States.
Private school, United States Military Academy.
He moved to Kentucky early in life and left the U.S. Military Academy in 1831 to study law in Greeney’s County, Kentucky. He was a Whig who became a Democrat, and he married Hebe Grayson Carter. He practiced law in Greeney’s County and became active in Whig politics.
Mann was appointed U.S. consul to Bremen, Germany, in 1842, U.S. commissioner to Hungary in 1849, and U.S. minister to Switzerland in 1850. From 1854 to 1856, he was assistant secretary of state. Late in the 1850s, he began to write about Southern economic independence, and he championed a Southern merchant marine.
For a time he settled in Richmond, Virginia, from where he volunteered for service in the Confederate government. During the war, the Confederate government sent him on a special mission to England in 1861. The mission proved unsuccessful, but Mann did influence the English and Belgian press.
From 1862 until the end of the war, he lived in Belgium, where he attempted to win King Leopold’s support of the Confederate cause. In 1863-1864, he went to the Vatican to attempt to persuade the Pope to stop the recruitment of Irish and Germans to fight in the Union Army. After the war, he lived in Paris and was a journalist.
"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.
Spouse Hebe Grayson Carter.