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Lucy Pickens, American wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens (died 1899)

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Lucy Pickens

American socialite

Lucy Petway Holcombe Pickens was a 19th-century American socialite of Tennessee and Texas, known during and after her lifetime as the "Queen of the Confederacy". She was also a First Lady of South Carolina. Described as "beautiful, brilliant, and captivating" by her male…
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Francis Wilkinson Pickens

American politician (c. 1805–1869)

Francis Wilkinson Pickens was a politician who served as governor of South Carolina when that state became the first to secede from the United States. A cousin of Senator John C. Calhoun, he was born into the Southern planter class. A member of the Democratic Party, Pickens…
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