Background
KEYES, Wade, Jr. was born in 1821 in Mooresville, Alabama, United States, United States.
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Wade Jr. KEYES
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Education
Private school, southern university.
Career
He was educated by private tutors and attended La Grange College in Georgia and the University of Virginia before moving to Lexington, Kentucky, in the late 1840s to study law. He had a daughter, Mary, by his marriage to a Miss Whitfield. Keyes was a Methodist and a Democrat.
He moved to Tallahassee, Florida, in 1844 where he practiced law and then he moved to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1851. He was the author of two volumes on legal subjects: An Essay on the Learning of Future Interests in Real Property (1853) and An Essay on the Learning of Remainders (1854). In 1853, Keyes was given the chancellorship for the Southern Division of Alabama.
He was a secessionist. When the Civil War began, he volunteered for duty in the Confederate Army but was assigned to staff duty in Richmond. Throughout the Civil War, he served as assistant attorney general for the Confederacy.
During Judah P. Benjamin’s term, Keyes actually conducted the affairs of the office. His opinions were detailed arguments backed by quotations from U.S. court cases. However, Keyes was no politician, and he was never able to obtain a cabinet office which his experience and ability merited.
After the war, he had a law practice in Florence, Alabama. Little else is known about his postwar career.
Religion
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Politics
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
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Political Party
Secessionist