After the 1860 presidential election, why did Republicans reject any further compromise on the slavery issue? They believed that moderate southerners would soon regain control, and that compromise on matters of basic principle was tantamount to surrender.
Hank Williams had two children, Hank Williams Jr. and Jett Williams. + 53 others found this useful.
(Getty Images). Were he alive, Hank Williams would have turned 92 today, September 17th. But country music history was written on January 1, 1953, when the forebear of high-lonesome country music died at age 29 in the backseat of a Cadillac while on the way to a gig in West Virginia.