Vallandigham, Clement Laird

(1822-1871), a lawyer and active Democratic politician in Ohio, served in the Legislature of that State, and was Congre man 1857-1863. He bitterly opposed the Government as the war progre ed, and became noted as the most extreme of Northern sympathizers with the Confederacy. General Burnside arrested him, and he was banished. From the Confederate States he went to Canada, and while there was nominated for Governor by the Ohio Democrats in 1863. He was defeated by Brough by a majority of 100,000. The following year he was a member of the Democratic National Convention. Vallandigham’s Case. In 1863 Clement L. Vallandigham, of Ohio, was tried, convicted and imprisoned for uttering opinions disloyal to the Union by a military commi ion appointed by General Burnside. Vallandigham applied to the Supreme Court to review by certiorari the proceedings of the military commi ion, claiming to have been unlawfully convicted. The Supreme Court maintained the decision of the commi ion on the ground that it had no power to review proceedings ordered by a general officer of the United States army.