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vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1812–1883)
Also known as: Alexander Hamilton Stephens, A. H. Stephens, Alex. H. Stephens, The Honorable Alexander H. Stephens, Александр Гамильтон Стивенс, ألكسندر ستيفينز
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- Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens (1910)
- A constitutional view of the late war between the states (1868)
- Reply of Hon. Alexander H. Stephens to the Baltimore Leader's notice of the "Review" of the "War between the States, etc." by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
- Carpenter's picture, Lincoln and emancipation (1878)
- Speech of Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia