ABOUT
Kentucky politician who was a staunch supporter of the abolition of slavery, and ran as the abolitionist candidate for president in 1844.His attempts at getting slaveowners to emancipate their slaves were very gradual - for example, exacting promises from them to free their slaves' children when they turned 21.His son David served as a Union general under Ulysses S. Grant in the Civil War.
BEFORE FAMEThough surrounded by anti-slavery friends and relatives, he did not adopt their views during his childhood.
PERSONAL LIFEHe was born into a wealthy, slaveholding Irish family, in Danville, Kentucky.
FUN FACTSPolitician James G. Birney were born on Saturday, in a leap year, birthstone is Amethyst, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of , it is 28 days until James G. Birney next birthday.