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William Oldham
WilliamOldham
Historical Figure
Nationality: United States (Confederate States, 1861-5)
Year of Birth: 1813
Year of Death: 1868
Occupation: Judge, politician
Spouse: Mary Vance McKisick (d. 1849)
Children: Six
Political Party: Democratic Party
Political Office(s): Confederate States Representative from Texas,
Confederate States Senator from Texas
Fictional Appearances:
The Guns of the South
POD: January 17, 1864
Type of Appearance: Contemporary reference
Nationality: Confederate States

William Simpson Oldham, Sr. (July 19, 1813 – May 8, 1868), born in Franklin County, Tennessee, served in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1838 and was later a Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1842. He represented Texas in the Provisional Confederate Congress from 1861 to 1862, and was a senator in the First Confederate Congress and Second Confederate Congress from 1862 to 1865. Oldham County, Texas, is named for him.

William Oldham in The Guns of the South[]

At the end of the Second American Revolution, Congressman[1] Oldham sponsored a bill to expel or reenslave all free Negroes in the Confederacy. Shortly afterwards, he bought a fine house in Richmond which he paid for in gold. Robert E. Lee knew that the Rivington Men were behind it but was uncertain as to what end they schemed.[2]

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