Wade Hampton V

Wade Hampton V was president of the Confederate States from March 4, 1922 till his assassination later that year. In 1921, he and Burton Mitchel were elected on the Whig ticket in a close election over Jake Featherston and Ferdinand Koenig of the Freedom Party. While speaking in Birmingham, Alabama in 1922, he was shot and killed by Grady Calkins, a rogue member of the Freedom Party. As a result, the Freedom Party's soaring popularity declined and the Whigs regained much of their old popularity.

Hampton was the grandson of pro-slavery South Carolina senator Wade Hampton III.