The southern plantocracy dominated every branch of antebellum federal government

Evidence

It had in American history chosen eleven out of sixteen Presidents, seventeen out of twenty-eight Judges of the Supreme Court, fourteen out of nineteen Attorneys-General, twenty-one out of thirty-three Speakers of the House, eighty out of one hundred thirty-four Foreign Ministers, (p. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 954

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• SHARE: A concrete stat-set showing 7% of a region’s population ran the entire federal government for decades — good fodder for someone into antebellum political history.