Richmond Government Presidents

1868-1873: George Washington Woodward (Republican)

1868 (with James L. Orr) ran unopposed
Note: Held during the Liberty and Union War (1868-76), and title disputed with the Constitutional Government

-after American Presidents > ^af5f13, southern militias storm congress, destroys certification, invites congress to come, southerners do and expel northerners from it
-assembly formally declares election to be in doubt, activating contingency provisions, declares pendleton next president
-endorses decertification of election citing electoral violence, provides legitimacy to richmondite assembly
-gets impeached by proper congress of the united states, but stays on, gets declared a rebel but he declares them a rebel back
-results in Liberty and Union War (1868-76)
-in the end, flees to Cuba where he stays in plantation

1873-1875: George H. Pendleton (People's)

1872 (with James L. Orr) ran unopposed

-nominated by southern populists, receives endorsement of woodward, sweeps south and wins parts of midwest

-disputed election, result certified by the mob
-seizes harpers ferry arsenal, gives it to baltimore mob
-a few months into presidency a charge took dc and brought it back under legitimate rule, richmondite congress forced into richmond, though they take documents, seals with them in flight
-tide turns, richmond taken in 1873, in west army tears through defences
-in Lille, Orr resigns position in its wake
-subsequently causes wave of resignations bringing general appointed by house of reps

1875-1877: Jubal Early (War Government) †

1875: elected President by Congress
1876: Richmondite Congress, government flees over the water to Jamaica
1876 (with William L. Crittenden) ran unopposed

-finally in 1876 war brought to conclusion, many richmondite politicians flee to cuba, mexico, spain, portugal, maranhao rather than surrender
-forrest among them, flees to portuguese grao-para where he proves massive slaveholder, continues exiled "congress"
-establishes network of plantations in Cuba, Brazil
-helps to organize paramilitary groups operating in the United States, with consequences
-ultimately dies

1877-1884: William L. Crittenden (Emergency Government) [captured]

1880: United States (Constitutionalist Government) invades Cuba
1880 (with Edmund Kirby Smith) ran unopposed
1883: Richmondite Congress, government flees over the water to Puerto Rico
1884: Most of Richmondite Congress, government captured

-continues organizing paramilitary groups despite us navy in pensacola being very threatening
-but one of them assassinates president wentworth in 1879
-after failed talks, us declares war on spain to push richmondites out
-massive success, much of richmondite congress captured by the us

1884-1893: William H. Norris (Emergency Government) †

1884: Exile government reorganized in Grao-Para
1884 (with George W. Gordon) ran unopposed
1888 (with George W. Gordon) ran unopposed
1892 (with George W. Gordon) ran unopposed

-but those government, congressional elements in Grao-Para reorganize government
-barely exists

1893-1895: George W. Gordon (Emergency Government)

1894: International Army invades Grao-Para
1895: International Army occupies Grao-Para, Congress Over the Water collapses

-scandal over Grao-Para having intense rubber-based slavery
-results in international coalition invading, occupying Grao-Para
-mostly peaceful, but Battle of New Richmond, the "last battle of the Liberty and Union War", occurs between International Army (American-dominated segment) and Richmondite forces

Capitals of the Richmondite Government

1868-1870: Washington, District of Columbia
1870-1875: Richmond, Virginia
1875-1876: Lille, Yazoo
1876-1876: Appalachicola, West Florida
1876-1882: Kingston, Jamaica
1882-1883: San Juan, Spanish Puerto Rico [in exile]
1883-1889: New Richmond, Portuguese Grao-Para [in exile]
1889-1897: Santarem, Grao-Para

Senators who served in the Richmond Congress initially (33 tot)

Georgia*2
South Carolina*2
Virginia*2
North Carolina*2
Mississippi*2
Yazoo*2
Orleans*2
Missouri*2
Arkansaw*2
West Florida*2
Tennessee*2
Illinois*2
Kentucky*2 - james c. jones & john c. breckinridge
East Florida*2
Cimarron*2
Maryland*1 - robert m mclane
Indiana*1 - joseph lane
Ohio*1 - lambdin p milligan

Readmission of Richmondite States

1. Orleans			-	1877

Division of the States

States whose governments recognized the Richmond Government, 1869

1.  Georgia

States whose governments recognized the Constitutional Government, 1869

1.  Delaware