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The term Bourbon Triumvirate refers to Georgia's three most powerful and prominent politicians of the post-Reconstruction era: Joseph E. Brown, Alfred H. Colquitt, and John B. Gordon. This trio practically held a lock on the state's U.S. Senate seats and governor's office from 1872 to 1890: Brown as senator from 1880 until 1890; Colquitt as governor from 1876 through 1882, and as senator from 1883 until 1894; and Gordon as senator from 1872 until 1880, governor from 1886 until 1890, and senator again from 1891 until 1897. The political careers of all three men benefited from their service during the Civil War (1861-65); Brown had served as the governor of Confederate Georgia, and Colquitt and Gordon had both risen to the rank of major general in the Confederate army by the war's end.
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What group was supported by tom Watson a GA populist?
the bourbon triumvirate
What is a government by three people with equal power?
A triumvirate is the name given to a government by three people. Perhaps the most famous triumvirate was that of Julius Caeser, Crassus and Pompey.
What does triumvairate mean?
triumvirate = political system with 3 rulers, like in the Roman Empire, 60 B.C. when caesar, pompeius an crassus ruled together, dividing power together
What date was Queen Isabella born?
Isabella was born in Madrid in 1830, and was the eldest daughter of Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, and of his fourth wife and niece, Maria Cristina, who was a Neapolitan Bourbon and also a grandniece of Marie Antoinette.
How was Napoleon III a liberal conservative and republican?
French monarchists in the 19th century thought the French crown should go to one of two dynasties - the House of Bourbon or the House of Orleans. The House of Bourbon was the House of Louis XVI at the time of the revolution, and of his two brothers Louis XVIII and Charles X, both of whom became King in succession after Napoleon I was deposed. Charles was deposed by revolution in 1830 because he could never reconcile himself to behaving as a "proper" constitutional monarch with limited authority. The Bourbon claim to the throne relied very heavily on divine mandate. The Bourbons were the successors of the oldest and most prestigious royal dynasties in Europe, dating back since before the time of Charlemagne. The French monarchy was viewed as God's sacred mandate, and the rules of succession clearly indicated that the Bourbons, under Salic Law, were rightful rulers. The supporters of the Bourbon monarchy ("Legitimists") in the 19th century tended towards royal absolutism or constitutional monarchy that left the king with wide powers. Following this, Louis-Philippe, son of the former Duc d'Orleans, became the "Citizen King". He promised to rule as a "people's monarch", not by right of inheritance or divine sanction, but because the people accepted him, somewhat similar to a President. Despite his promises, he eventually fell victim to political intrigue and the fed up French people deposed him in 1848 and declared a republic. Even though Louis-Phillipe was not the legitimate heir to the throne under the law, he was at least a descendant of previous kings (the original Duc D'Orleans was the King's younger brother). He thus had a claim, albeit a weaker one, to rule by right of inheritance AND popular sanction. Napoleon had absolutely no right to the French throne; his parents were very minor Corsican nobility. This is why he did not name himself King of France; he named himself Emperor, in the same way that the Roman Emperors emerged out of a republican government. Supporters of Napoleon III usually were NOT traditional monarchists at all: they were the rural poor and others who remembered the glory days of Napoleon I, and believed Napoleon III to be a friend to the oppressed, a quasi-socialist. Napoleon III was a populist hero, not a monarchical one. His views were quite left-wing (he supported republican revolutionaries in Italy), and although republicans and socialists didn't like him, he definitely had more in common with them politically than he did with the French establishment. Basically, they didn't like him for the same reason the crowned heads of Europe didn't like Napoleon I: He was an upstart usurper, a tinpot dictator who ruled because of the adulation of the rabble and promises of bread and military glory, rather than through divine right and the defence of France's traditional institutions, which is what monarchists (both Legitimists and Orleanists) hankered for.
