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Wickliffe received a strong education in public school and through private tutors. He studied law and was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1812. A vigorous supporter of the War of 1812, he served for a brief time as aide-de-camp to two American generals in the war. In 1823, he was elected to the first of five consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. He returned to the state House in 1833, and was elected the tenth Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky in 1836. Governor James Clark died in office on October 5, 1839, and Wickliffe served as governor for the remaining nine months of Clark's term.

President Tyler appointed Wickliffe as Postmaster General following Wickliffe's term as governor. In 1844, he was stabbed by a man who was later found to be insane. In 1845, President James K. Polk sent Wickliffe on a secret mission to report on British and French intents with regard to annexing Texas and to assess the feasibility of the United States undertaking such an action. Wickliffe's participation in this endeavor further distanced him from the Whigs.

In 1861, Wickliffe was again elected to the U.S. House, serving a single term. He tried to avert the Civil War by serving as a delegate to both the 1861 Peace Conference and the Border States Convention. After war was declared, he sided with the Union cause. In 1863, he again sought the office of governor, but federal military forces interfered with the election, resulting in a landslide victory for Thomas E. Bramlette. Later in life, Wickliffe was crippled in a carriage accident and also went completely blind. He died on October 31, 1869, while visiting his daughter in Maryland.

Early life

Charles Anderson Wickliffe was born June 8, 1788, in a log cabin near Springfield, Kentucky.<ref name=harrison950>Harrison, p. 950</ref> He was the youngest of the nine children born to Charles and Lydia (Hardin) Wickliffe.<ref name=powell38>Powell, p. 38</ref> His family emigrated to Kentucky from Virginia in 1784.<ref name=allen104>Allen, p. 104</ref>

Wickliffe attained his early education at the local schools of Springfield, then attended Wilson's Academy in Bardstown.<ref name=powell38 /> For a year, he received private instruction from James Blythe, acting president of Transylvania University, then read law with Martin D. Hardin, a cousin on his mother's side.<ref name=powell38 /><ref name=eok>Encyclopedia of Kentucky, p. 78</ref><ref name=little203>Little, p. 203</ref> In 1809, he was admitted to the bar and began practice in Bardstown.<ref name=congbio>Biological Directory of the United States Congress</ref> He owned slaves.<ref name="Congress slaveowners">Template:Citation</ref> He and five other prominent lawyers of Bardstown formed a debate club called The Pleiades Club.<ref name=hibbs40>Hibbs, p. 40</ref> The club included six members: Wickliffe, John Hays, Ben Chapeze, Benjamin Hardin (another of Wickliffe's cousins), Felix Grundy, and William Pope Duval.<ref name=hibbs40 /> John Rowan and John Pope also participated in the debates, but were not members of the club.<ref name=powell38 />

In his early life, Wickliffe was known to gamble at cards. His friends considered his gambling excessive, and two of them – Duval and Judge John Pope Oldham – devised a scheme to break Wickliffe of his habit. The two knew that Wickliffe would be collecting several thousand dollars at the upcoming session of the Bullitt County court. They plotted to invite Wickliffe to play cards with them and agreed upon a secret system of signals to communicate about the strengths and weaknesses of the cards in their hands. In this way, they hoped to win all of Wickliffe's money, then return it to him in exchange for his promise to forsake the vice. On the night appointed, however, it was Wickliffe who won all the money wagered by Duval and Oldham, despite their schemes. When Wickliffe later learned of the designs of his friends, he agreed to give up gambling.<ref>Little, pp. 33–34</ref>

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Wickland, the home of Wickliffe

In 1813, Wickliffe married Margaret Cripps, and the couple had three sons and five daughters.<ref name=powell38 /><ref name=eok /> Most notable among the children was Robert, who became Governor of Louisiana.<ref name=powell38 /> His daughter Nancy married David Levy Yulee.

The Wickliffes contracted with John Rogers, architect of St. Joseph's Cathedral in Bardstown, to construct their residence, which they dubbed "Wickland".<ref name=heck52>Heck, p. 52</ref> Later, Wickland was called "the home of three governors".<ref name=heck52 /> Besides Wickliffe and his son, J. C. W. Beckham, Wickliffe's grandson and future governor of Kentucky, occupied the residence.<ref name=heck52 />

Political career

Wickliffe's political career began when he was elected to represent Nelson County in the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1812 and 1813.<ref name=powell38 /> During his tenure, he enthusiastically supported the War of 1812.<ref name=powell38 /> He first served as an aide-de-camp to General Joseph Winlock, and on August 24, 1813, he enlisted as a private in Martin H. Wickliffe's company.<ref name=kyng>Trowbridge, "Kentucky's Military Governors"</ref> On September 2, 1813, he was chosen as aide-de-camp to General Samuel Caldwell and served in this capacity at the October 5, 1813, Battle of the Thames.<ref name=congbio /><ref name=kyng /> In 1816, he succeeded Ben Hardin as Commonwealth's Attorney for Nelson County.<ref name=powell38 />

Wickliffe was returned to the Kentucky House in 1822 and 1823.<ref name=congbio /> During this period, a controversy known as the Old Court-New Court controversy was raging in Kentucky. Reeling from the financial Panic of 1819, many of the state's citizens demanded debt relief. When some debt relief measures passed by the legislature were declared unconstitutional by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the legislature attempted to dissolve the court and replace it with a more sympathetic one. For a time, two courts claimed to be the court of last resort in Kentucky. Wickliffe supported the "Old Court", which was the court that eventually prevailed.<ref name=little107>Little, p. 107</ref>

First service in the House of Representatives

In 1823, Wickliffe was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served five consecutive terms.<ref name=congbio /> Again he succeeded his cousin and friend, Ben Hardin.<ref name=little98>Little, p. 98</ref> Though a Whig, he disagreed with many of the positions of the party's founder, Henry Clay.<ref name=harrison950 /> When no candidate received a majority of the electoral votes in the 1824 presidential election, the constitution mandated that the election be decided in the House.<ref name=heck52 /> Wickliffe bucked Clay's advice to vote for him and instead voted for Andrew Jackson, who was the choice of the Kentucky legislature.<ref name=heck52 />

Historian Robert Powell opined that Wickliffe's break from party loyalty may explain his lack of committee appointments in his early years in the House.<ref name=powell38 /> Beginning in 1829, however, he chaired the Committee on Public Lands.<ref name=powell38 /> In this capacity, he attacked Clay's plan to distribute surplus revenue among the states as being unfair to younger states.<ref name=heck52 /> He also differed with Clay over Clay's willingness to limit slavery.<ref name=heck52 /> He wrote Clay concerning his slowness to respond to the problem of fugitive slaves; Clay never responded.<ref name=heck52 /> Neither was Wickliffe loyal to the Jacksonian platform, however. In a letter to his brother, he lamented Jackson's attacks on the Second Bank of the United States.<ref name=heck52 /> He publicly encouraged Kentuckians to strengthen the Whigs, despite his disagreements with Clay.<ref name=heck52 />

In 1830, Wickliffe was chosen by his colleagues as one of the managers of the impeachment trial proceedings against Missouri District Court judge James H. Peck.<ref name=congbio /> In 1831, he was one of several candidates proposed by the Kentucky General Assembly to succeed John Rowan in the U.S. Senate.<ref name=little156>Little, p. 156</ref> Of the sixty-nine votes needed to be elected to the seat, Wickliffe received forty-nine.<ref name=little156 /> Other candidates included John J. Crittenden (sixty-eight votes), John Breathitt (sixty-six votes), and Richard Mentor Johnson (sixty-four votes).<ref name=little156 /> After three days of balloting, the Assembly was still unable to fill the seat, and it was allowed to remain vacant until the next session.<ref name=little156 /> Wickliffe did not seek re-election to his seat in the House in 1833.<ref name=congbio />

Governor of Kentucky

Wickliffe returned to the state legislature from 1833 to 1835.<ref name=congbio /> In 1834, he defeated Daniel Breck and John L. Helm to become Speaker of the House.<ref name=little204>Little, p. 204</ref> He was elected lieutenant governor of Kentucky in 1836, defeating Democrat Elijah Hise by a margin of just over 1,300 votes.<ref name=little204 /> Upon the death of Governor James Clark on October 5, 1839, he became acting governor and served the remaining nine months of Clark's term.<ref name=congbio />

As governor, Wickliffe's primary concern was the Panic of 1837.<ref name=harrison950 /> He advocated raising property taxes to offset spending deficits that had climbed to $42,000 by 1839, but the legislature borrowed money to meet the current expenses instead.<ref name=harrison950 /> Wickliffe maintained the state's credit by paying the interest due on state securities.<ref name=harrison950 /> The only areas where he called for more spending were improvements in river navigation, preservation of state archives, and public education.<ref name=harrison950 /> Aside from these concerns, he was inundated with requests for clemency.<ref name=harrison950 />

Service to Presidents Tyler and Polk

Wickliffe campaigned on behalf of the Whig ticket of William Henry Harrison and John Tyler in the presidential election of 1840.<ref name=heck53>Heck, p. 53</ref> Wickliffe and Tyler were friends, having shared a room when they were both in Congress.<ref name=heck53 /> When Harrison's death elevated Tyler to the office of president, Tyler appointed Wicklilffe as Postmaster General, a choice that angered Clay supporters in the party.<ref name=heck53 /> Wickliffe served in Tyler's administration until March 1845.<ref name=congbio />

On August 1, 1844, Wickliffe and two of his daughters boarded the steamship Georgia traveling from Old Point Comfort in Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland.<ref name=niles353>Niles' National Register, p. 353</ref> While en route, he was stabbed in the chest by a man wielding a claspknife.<ref name=hibbs40 /> The knife bounced off Wickliffe's breastbone without damaging any major internal organs, and a U.S. Navy officer prevented a second blow from hitting Wickliffe.<ref name=niles353 /> Wickliffe's attacker, J. McLean Gardner, was disarmed and arrested.<ref name=niles353 /> Later that night, he wrote Wickliffe a letter of apology.<ref name=niles353 /> Wickliffe was not seriously injured, and returned home three days after the attack.<ref name=niles353 /> Gardner was tried and found to be insane; he was later sent to an asylum.<ref name=hibbs40 />

Wickliffe supported the annexation of Texas, an issue that helped seal Clay's defeat in the 1844 presidential canvass.<ref name=heck54>Heck, p. 54</ref> In 1845, President James K. Polk sent Wickliffe as an envoy on a secret mission to the Republic of Texas.<ref name=nga>National Governors Association</ref> Originally, his purpose was to quash British and French attempts to forestall the U.S. annexation of Texas, but he later joined Commodore Robert F. Stockton in lobbying leaders of the Republic of Texas to order their military forces across the Rio Grande into Mexico.<ref name=bullock>Bullock</ref> Stockton and Wickliffe believed that if they could provoke a Texan invasion of Mexico, the United States would have a stronger case for annexing Texas.<ref name=bullock /> Ultimately, they failed in convincing the Texans to invade, but succeeded in drumming up support for annexation.<ref name=bullock /> Both Wickliffe's position on annexation and his willingness to carry out Polk's assignment further distanced him from the Whigs.<ref name=harrison950 />

Later political career

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Burial site in Bardstown, Kentucky

On February 18, 1841, the Kentucky General Assembly elected James Turner Morehead to the U.S. Senate; Wickliffe received twenty votes in this contest.<ref name=little205>Little, p. 205</ref> In 1849, he was chosen as a delegate to the state constitutional convention, despite having opposed the calling of such a convention a decade earlier.<ref name=congbio /><ref name=little205 /> Wickliffe's political opponents, including Thomas F. Marshall, claimed this showed Wickliffe's political inconsistency, a charge that Wickliffe denied.<ref name=little205 /> The following year, Wickliffe was appointed to a committee charged with revising the state's code of laws.<ref name=powell38 /> On January 8, 1861, he chaired the state Democratic convention in Louisville.<ref name=little210 />

Wickliffe was elected to another term in Congress, serving from 1861 to 1863 as a Union Whig.<ref name=congbio /> He opposed the idea of secession, and was a member of both the 1861 Peace Conference and the Border States Convention that attempted to stave off the Civil War.<ref name=powell38 /> In April 1861, he attended a secret meeting at the Capitol Hotel in Frankfort where participants planned to arm Union supporters in key areas of the state.<ref name=hibbs68>Hibbs, p. 68</ref> On May 18, President Lincoln supplied rifles – nicknamed "Lincoln guns" – for the venture.<ref name=hibbs69>Hibbs, p. 69</ref> After Braxton Bragg's forces destroyed the railroad trestles near Bardstown, Wickliffe personally hired Joseph Z. Aud to carry the area's mail by private carriage.<ref name=hibbs80>Hibbs, p. 80</ref> The trestles were rebuilt in February 1863, precluding the need for Aud's service.<ref name=hibbs80 />

Near the end of his term in Congress, Wickliffe was thrown from a carriage and permanently crippled.<ref name=powell38 /> Despite his injury, he remained politically active. In 1863, he ran for governor as a Peace Democrat on an anti-Lincoln platform.<ref name=eok /> Military authorities considered him subversive, however, and interfered with the election; Wickliffe lost to Thomas E. Bramlette in a landslide.<ref name=harrison950 /><ref name=little210>Little, p. 210</ref>

Wickliffe served as a delegate to the 1864 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, casting his vote for George B. McClellan.<ref name=little210 /> In the final years of his life, he became totally blind.<ref name=allen104 /> While visiting his daughter near Ilchester, Maryland, he fell gravely ill and died on October 31, 1869.<ref name=heck54 /> He was buried in Bardstown Cemetery in Bardstown.<ref name=congbio /> During World War I, a U.S. naval ship was named in Wickliffe's honor.<ref name=hibbs140>Hibbs, p. 140</ref>

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