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Secretary of War to James Monroe, Vice President under John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson, he became a pro-slavery supporter and died 11 years before the war broke out | John C. Calhoun | 95%
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An outspoken secessionist, he committed suicide only a couple months after the surrender at Appomattox | Edmund Ruffin | 22%
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Published "De Bow's Review" in the Antebellum Years and worked for the Confederate Treasury during the war | James De Bow | 16%
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Owner of the Charleston Mercury, he served in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and is credited by some as the "Father of Secession" | Robert Barnwell Rhett | 14%
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Instrumental in helping Alabama secede from the Union; he also later served as a diplomat for the Confederate States | William Lowndes Yancey | 13%
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After playing a role in helping South Carolina secede from the Union, he served in the Confederate Army and was killed at the Battle of Cold Harbor | Lawrence Keitt | 6%
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Wrote "An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery" | Thomas R. R. Cobb | 5%
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Fled to England after the war ended, but returned and outspokenly defended the Confederacy right until his death in 1881 | John S. Preston | 3%
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Serving in the House of Representatives before the war, he argued to the other representatives to let South Carolina go in peace or else war would come. After the war he became president of the University of South Carolina | William Porcher Miles | 3%
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Personally encouraged the shelling of Fort Sumter, and later fled to England for a few years after the war ended | Louis T. Wigfall | 2%
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