Refusing to run for Congress again in 1816, Yancey instead ran for the North Carolina Senate and served there for ten years, from 1817 to 1827 ; he served as Speaker of the North Carolina Senate for his entire tenure in the legislature.

He became President of Liberia in 1930 when President King and Vice President Allen Yancey resigned because of a scandal.

During the Civil War, Yancey was appointed by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to head a diplomatic delegation to Europe in the attempt to secure formal recognition of Southern independence.

When the newly-established Confederate States of America met later that month in Montgomery to establish their formal union, Yancey was not a delegate, but he delivered the address of welcome to Jefferson Davis, selected as provisional President, on his arrival at Montgomery.

Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Yancey met on February 18, 1861, as Davis was starting to put together the executive branch of the government.

In late August, with little else to do, Yancey submitted his resignation but, due to the events of the Trent Affair, Yancey did not leave until his replacements, James M. Mason and John Slidell ( selected by President Davis in July before he was aware of Yancey ’ s intent ), arrived in January 1862.

By the end of June, Yancey was extremely ill, but he still continued his correspondence with President Davis and others.

When the government of the Confederate States of America was organized in Montgomery in February 1861, Moore used his influence to help secure the election of the conservative Jefferson Davis over the more radical William Lowndes Yancey.

Upon his return to America in 1862, Yancey was elected to the Confederate States Senate where he was a frequent critic of the Davis Administration.

Yancey had made the formal welcome address to Davis, stating that " The man and the hour have met.

" Later Yancey would criticize many of Davis ' actions.

While many of the fire-eaters were opposed to the selection of a relative moderate like Davis, Yancey accepted him as a good choice.

In his speech, Yancey indicated that in the selection of Davis, " The man and the hour have met.

" Many historians agree with Emory Thomas who wrote, " When Yancey and Davis met in Montgomery the helm of the revolution changed hands.

Yancey and the radicals had stirred the waters ; Davis and the moderates would sail the ship.

On military matters, Yancey wanted details provided to Congress on reports of execution without trials of Confederate soldiers by General Braxton Bragg, questioned the reasons Virginia had twenty nine brigadier generals while Alabama only had four, authored a resolution condemning drunkenness within the army, and joined in demands that Davis account for complaints on the military administration of the Trans-Mississippi District.

* More Than Words: Contemporary Writers on the Works That Shaped Them ( 2002 ) ( previously published as Reality and the Vision ( 1990 ) and The Classics We've Read, The Difference They've Made ( 1993 ))-Compiled by Philip Yancey, edited by James C. Schaap

The new sheriff and his deputy — Rusty of course — have a hard time not just fighting the criminals but also convincing all the farmers who have been wronged by Surrett that mob rule (" Come on, boys, let's take ' em out to the plaza ") is out of the question: When Yancey ( Victor Jory ), one of Surrett's thugs, is in jail, Hatton has to protect him against the furious men outside who, not caring for Yancey's right to a fair trial, want to take the law into their own hands and lynch him right then and there.

A statue of Captain Burns stands on a 40 ton, Mount Airy granite pedestal in the center of the town's public square, which was given the official name of " Bailey Square " by the Yancey County Board of Commissioners on September 1, 1930.

Recently East Carolina University Dental School announced a facility will be built on the Blue Ridge Regional Hospital campus to serve Western North Carolina residents in the Mayland area ( Mitchell, Avery and Yancey Counties ).

Set in 1913, the film was based on Rebecca Yancey Williams's own family.

They were an immense influence on other pianists, including Jimmy Yancey, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons and many others.

The pair worked together on Common's next album, Be, almost entirely produced by Kanye West, with some help from Common's longtime collaborator the late James Yancey ( J Dilla ) – also a favorite of West.

Yancey submitted a long letter on August 14 detailing again the reasons why the Confederacy should receive formal recognition and requesting another meeting with Russell.

Fatburger was founded by Lovie Yancey on Western Avenue in Los Angeles, California in 1947.

Yancey was featured on America's Most Wanted.

Yancey was featured on America's Most Wanted.

Yancey ’ s mother, Caroline Bird, lived on the family home ( nicknamed " the Aviary ") located near the falls of the Ogeechee River in Warren County, Georgia.

On December 8, 1808, she married Benjamin Cudworth Yancey, a lawyer in South Carolina who had served on the USS Constellation during the Quasi-War with France.

Yancey was born at " the Aviary "; three years later, on October 26, 1817, his father died of yellow fever.

Yancey ’ s widowed mother married the Reverend Nathan Sydney Smith Beman on April 23, 1821.

The 16-year old Yancey was admitted as a sophomore based on the required entrance examinations.

In the autumn of 1832, Yancey took his first steps as a politician by working on the campaign for Whig Ebenezer Emmons.

Yancey resigned from the newspaper on May 14, 1835.

Yancey also began to attack Henry Clay for his support of the American Colonization Society, which Yancey equated with attacks on Southern slavery.

In March 1842, Yancey sold his newspaper because of increasing debt ( throughout his career as an editor he faced the problem of many fellow editors — obtaining and collecting on subscriptions ), and he opened a law practice instead.

Yancey delivered his first speech on January 6, 1845, when he was selected by the Democrats to respond to a speech by Thomas Clingman, a Whig from North Carolina, who had opposed Texas annexation.

The nomination of Cass for the 1848 Democratic Presidential nomination on a platform of popular sovereignty led to Yancey walking out of the convention.

Yancey ’ s third party support for George Troup of Georgia on a Southern rights platform drew only 2, 000 votes.

For the 1859 Southern Commercial Convention in Vicksburg, which passed the resolution to repeal all state and federal regulations banning the slave trade, Yancey could only contribute editorials, although by July 1859 he was able to speak publicly in Columbia, South Carolina, in favor of repealing the restrictions.

One memory of his youth was listening to a record by black pianist Jimmy Yancey during a German air raid.

LeRoy Pope Walker of Alabama was made Secretary of War, after being recommended for this post by Clement Clay and William Yancey ( both of whom declined to accept cabinet positions themselves ).

Pro Bowl wide receiver Yancey Thigpen was the team's leading receiver with 85 receptions for 1, 307 yards and 5 touchdowns.

In Alabama, with no available candidate sufficiently opposed to the proviso, William L. Yancey secured the adoption by the state Democratic convention of the so-called " Alabama Platform ", which was endorsed by the legislatures of Alabama and Georgia and by Democratic state conventions in Florida and Virginia.

Teacher Carolyn Foster and student Diane Collins were killed, and teacher Carolyn Yancey was wounded in the incident.

Yancey County was named in honor of one of North Carolina's most distinguished statesmen, Bartlett Yancey, of Caswell County.

The county was formed in 1849 from parts of Ashe County, Caldwell County, Wilkes County, and Yancey County.

Mitchell County was one of the three dry counties in North Carolina, along with Graham and Yancey, but in March, 2009, after much controversy, the Town of Spruce Pine approved beer, wine, and ABC store sales.

The county was formed in 1861 from parts of Burke County, Caldwell County, McDowell County, Watauga County, and Yancey County.

The county was formed in 1851 from parts of Buncombe County and Yancey County.

As an example, Bartlett Yancey, Jr., was Speaker of the North Carolina Senate 1817-1827, and during part of this time Romulus Mitchell Saunders was Speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons.

In 1833 parts of Burke County and Buncombe County were combined to form Yancey County, and in 1838 the southern part of what was left of Buncombe County became Henderson County.

In 1849, to form Watauga County, the southwestern part of Ashe County was combined with parts of Caldwell County, Wilkes County, and Yancey County.

One famous resident was William Lowndes Yancey, a firebrand newspaper editor and statesman who was an influential advocate of States ' rights and Southern secession.

In 1841, Charles S. Yancey became circuit judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District, to which Newton County was attached.

It was named after Rufus Yancey McAden, president of McAden Mills, the town's textile mill.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1931 for his performance as Yancey Cravat in Cimarron, in which he shared top-billing with Irene Dunne.

" Although the neighboring states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri would also produce boogie-woogie players and their boogie-woogie tunes, and despite the fact that Chicago would become known as the center for this music through such pianists as Jimmy Yancey, Albert Ammons, and Meade " Lux " Lewis, Texas was home to an environment that fostered creation of boogie-style: the lumber, cattle, turpentine, and oil industries, all served by an expanding railway system from the northern corner of East Texas to the Gulf Coast and from the Louisiana border to Dallas and West Texas.

In his youth he was influenced by the pianist Jimmy Yancey.

Slavery was discussed only when Russell asked Yancey whether the international slave trade would be reopened by the Confederacy ( a position Yancey had advocated in recent years ); Yancey ’ s reply was that this was not part of the Confederacy ’ s agenda.