Talk:John W. Stevenson

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A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 21, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that Kentucky lieutenant governor John W. Stevenson (pictured) ascended to the governorship following the death of sitting governor John L. Helm just five days into his term?
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Good Article

This article read well and met all the GA criteria. In particular I thought the lead section was a very good summary of the article. All the best... Johnfos 09:50, 4 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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:

http://www.worldcat.org/title/extension-of-ku-klux-act-speech-of-hon-john-w-stevenson-of-kentucky-delivered-in-the-the-senate-of-the-united-states-may-21-1872/oclc/70243889

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.