Robert Toombs
American politician (1810-1885) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 75
Robert Augustus Toombs was an American politician from Georgia, who was an important figure in the formation of the Confederacy.
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From a privileged background as a wealthy planter and slaveholder, Toombs embarked on a political career marked by effective oratory, although he also acquired a reputation for hard living, disheveled appearance, and irascibility. He was identified with Alexander H. Stephens's libertarian wing of secessionist opinion, and in contradiction to the nationalist Jefferson Davis, Toombs believed a civil war to be neither inevitable nor winnable by the South.
