Leadership
Prominent War Democrats included:
- Andrew Johnson, the U.S. senator, then military governor of Tennessee who was elected Vice President in 1864 on a ticket with Lincoln, and became President after Lincoln's assassination
- George Bancroft, historian and presidential speech writer
- John Brough, Governor of Ohio
- Benjamin F. Butler, Congressman from Massachusetts; Union general
- John Cochrane (general)
- John Adams Dix, of New York, Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury, Union general
- Stephen A. Douglas, Senator from Illinois; Democratic Party's northern candidate in the presidential election of 1860, who died a few weeks into the war
- Ulysses S. Grant, storekeeper in Illinois & Union general, later became Republican; Elected 18th President of the United States 1869; 1872
- Joseph Holt, Kentucky; Buchanan's Secretary of War; Lincoln's Judge-Advocate General of the Army
- Francis Kernan, Congressman from New York
- Michael Crawford Kerr, 32nd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from December 6, 1875 to August 19, 1876
- John A. Logan, Congressman from Illinois; Union general
- George B. McClellan, railroad president; Union general; Democratic presidential nominee in 1864
- Joel Parker, Governor of New Jersey
- Edwards Pierrepont, in 1875, he was appointed U.S. Attorney General by President Ulysses S. Grant.
- William Rosecrans, led the Union at Chickamauga and was asked to run with Lincoln as a War Democrat in 1864
- Daniel Sickles, former New York congressman, led III Corps at Gettysburg where he lost a leg
- David Tod, Governor of Ohio
- Edwin M. Stanton, Ohio; Buchanan's Attorney General and Lincoln's Secretary of War
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