Talk:John W. Stevenson
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Dumping some refs useful for non-Governor part of the article
Some primary, some secondary, some tertiary. We can sort it out at the end:
http://www.nku.edu/~myerssh/KCHS/scans/75.pdf
Looks like the guy was on the Morill commission which investigated the Credit Mobilier scandal of 1873
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/expulsion_cases/064JamesPatterson_expulsion.htm
The only explicit reference to him is negative—he didn't want to serve on the commission, but the other senators refused to let him out.
A speech on extending the Ku Klux act. This is a primary source, will check for secondary sources covering it:
Ok, found one:
http://books.google.com/books?id=bVCVFXG9mqkC page 201.
The guy opposed the KKK act, based on state vs federal rights. Page 203 has excerpts from the speech.
There is a bit about his militias here ( Civil War History, Vol. 56, No. 2, Patrick A. Lewis, "The Democratic Partisan Militia and the Black Peril: The Kentucky Militia, Racial Violence, and the Fifteenth Amendment, 1870-1873"
http://www.questia.com/read/1G1-228432758/the-democratic-partisan-militia-and-the-black-peril
The article is negative about the militia, but mentions another historian who held the opposite view.
According to this (a small newspaper):
http://www.moultrienews.com/column/Angelica-Singleton-was-America-s-First-Lady--1839---1841
President Van Buren's wife was John Stevenson's cousin.
As per this book (http://books.google.com/books?id=eyik0rO0HlsC) p 184:
he had a daughter: Judith White Stevenson, a member of the Virginia Society of the Colonial Dames of America. Neither the publisher nor the author looks particularly credible though. Might have dig up some other source.