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{{Short description|American politician}} |
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{{Use American English|date=March 2017}} |
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{{Infobox officeholder |
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| name = James Byeram Owens |
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| office = Deputy from [[Florida]]<br />to the [[Provisional Confederate States Congress|Provisional Congress<br />of the Confederate States]] |
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| term_start = February 4, 1861 |
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| term_end = February 17, 1862 |
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| predecessor = New constituency |
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| successor = Constituency abolished |
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| birth_date = [[Wiktionary:circa|c.]] 1816 |
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| birth_place = [[Fairfield County, South Carolina]], U.S. |
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| death_date = August 1, 1889 |
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| death_place = [[Marion County, Florida]], U.S. |
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| resting_place = Evergreen Cemetery,<br />[[Ocala, Florida]], U.S. |
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| nationality = American |
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| children = Willie Owens |
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| spouse = Louisa Owens |
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}} |
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'''James Byeram Owens''' ([[Wiktionary:circa|c.]] 1816 – August 1, 1889) was a slaveowner and American politician who served as a Deputy from [[Florida]] to the [[Provisional Confederate States Congress|Provisional Congress of the Confederate States]] from 1861 to 1862. He mounted legal arguments in defense of [[Secession in the United States|secession]] based on an [[Originalism|originalist]] interpretation of the [[Constitution of the United States|U.S. Constitution]]<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Cutler|first=H.G.|url=https://digital.lib.usf.edu/SFS0070569/00001|title=History of Florida : past and present, historical and biographical, volume III.|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|year=1923|pages=8-10|language=English}}</ref> and Southern arguments in favor of states' rights,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Rev James Byeram Owens (1816-1889) - Find a Grave...|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6647493/james-byeram-owens|access-date=2022-02-21|website=www.findagrave.com|language=en}}</ref> with the intention of defending the practice and institution of [[Slavery in the United States|slavery]]. |
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== Biography == |
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Owens was born in [[Fairfield County, South Carolina]], moving to Mississippi and later to [[Marion County, Florida]], in 1857, with his other two brothers.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> Owens was one of the wealthier slaveowning cotton planters in Marion County.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Smith|first=Julia Floyd|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1079199321|title=Slavery and plantation growth in Antebellum Florida, 1821-1860|date=2017|isbn=978-1-947372-62-7|location=Gainesville, Florida|oclc=1079199321}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> His name appears on the 1860 Slave Census Schedules for Marion County which attribute to him the ownership of 89 enslaved persons.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marion County, Florida 1860 slaveholders and 1870 African Americans|url=https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~ajac/genealogy/flmarion.htm|access-date=2022-02-22|website=freepages.rootsweb.com}}</ref> |
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Owens played a considerable role in the events leading up to the [[U.S. Civil war|U.S. Civil War]]. He served as a delegate from Florida at the [[1860 Democratic National Conventions|Democratic National Conventions of 1860]]. At the first convention, held in Charleston, he was selected to represent the interests of Southern Democrats in a debate with [[Benjamin Butler]] of Massachusetts. Owens, along with the Florida delegation and several other entire delegations representing the Southern states, walked out of the Charleston convention and held their own convention, where they nominated [[John C. Breckinridge]] for the Democratic Party ticket in the [[1860 United States presidential election|U.S. presidential election of 1860]].<ref name=":0" /> |
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Owens then represented Marion County at the [[Florida Secession Convention|Secession Convention of Florida]] held in Tallahasee in January 1861 and was a signatory to the Ordinance of Secession which declared Florida's secession from the [[United States]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Florida Secession|url=http://www.colket.org/genealogy/000_Florida_Secession.html|access-date=2022-02-21|website=www.colket.org}}</ref> Shortly thereafter, Florida joined the [[Confederate States of America|Confederacy]] and Owens became a Deputy in the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States as well as a signatory to the [[Constitution of the Confederate States]], representing Florida. |
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After the war, Owens, along with all other former Confederates, was granted a full and unconditional [[pardon]] by President [[Andrew Johnson]] in 1868. |
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== Notable relatives == |
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Owens was the brother-in-law of [[Ethelbert Barksdale]] and the maternal grandfather of [[John W. Martin]], the 24th [[Governor of florida|Governor of Florida]], by way of his daughter, Willie Owens, and her husband, John M. Martin Jr., the son of [[John Marshall Martin]]. |
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==See also== |
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* [[List of people pardoned or granted clemency by the president of the United States]] |
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==References== |
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# {{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Mrs. James B. Owens |newspaper=The Ocala Evening Star |date=November 21, 1907}} |
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