The "old gentlemen's convention" was the last ditch effort to end the growing conflict peaceably. Although 22 states did send representatives, the states of the Deep South, which were meeting at the Convention of Seceding States, refused to send delegates to the Convention.

As the Deep South was in the process of seceding from the Union, Virginia call for a "peace convention"

Proceedings were held in secret.

The meeting used the Crittenden Plan as its starting point for finding common ground, but failed.

Members
Illinois.—John Wood, Stephen T. Logan, John M. Palmer,
Burton C. Cook, Thomas J. Turner.
Connecticut
Roger S. Baldwin
Chauncey F. Cleveland,
Charles J. HcCurdy
James T. Pratt
Robbins Battell
Amos S. Treat

Delaware
George B. Rodney
Daniel M. Bates
Henry Ridgeley
John W. Houston
William Cannon.

Indiana
Caleb B. Smith
Pleasant A. Hackleman
Godlove S. Orth
E. W. H. Ellis
Thomas C. Slaughter

Iowa
James W. Grimes
Samuel H. Curtis
William Vandever

Kentucky
William O. Butler
James B. Clay
Joshua E. Bell
Charles S. Morehead
James Guthrie
Charles A. Wickliffe.

Maryland
John F. Dent
Reverdy Johnson
John W. Crisfield
Augustus W. Bradford
William T. Goldsborough
J. Dixon Roman
Benjamin C. Howard.

New Hampshire
Amos Tuck
Levi Chamberlain
Asa Fowler.

New Jersey
Charles S. Olden
Peter D. Vroom
Robert F. Stockton
Benjamin Williamson
Joseph F. Randolph
Frederick T. Frelinghuysen
Rodman M. Price
William C. Alexander
Thomas J. Stryker

New York
William E. Dodge

North Carolina
George Davis
Thomas Ruffin
David S. Reid
Daniel M. Barringer
J. M. Morehead.

Ohio
John C. Wright
Salmon P. Chase
William S. Groesbeck
Franklin C. Backus
Reuben Hitchcock
Thomas Ewing
Valentine B. Horton

Pennsylvania
Thomas White
James Pollock
William M. Meredith
David Wilmot
A. W. Loomis
Thomas E. Franklin,
William McKennan.

Rhode Island and, Providence Plantations
Samuel Ames
Alexander Duncan
William W. Hoppin
George H. Browne
Samuel G. Arnold

Tennessee
Josiah M. Anderson
Robert L. Carruthers
Alvin Cullom
Isaac R. Hawkins
William P. Hickerson
George W. Jones
R. J. McKinney
Thomas Martin
Samuel Milligan
William H. Stephens
A. W. O. Totten.
F. K. Zollicoffer

Virginia
John Tyler
William C. Rives
John W. Brockenbrough
George W. Summers
James A. Seddon.

Vermont
Hiland Hall
Lucius E. Chittenden
Levi Underwood
H. Henry Baxter
B. D. Harris.

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Convention of Seceding States
F. K. Zollicoffer
Salmon P. Chase

Washington Peace Convention was last changed on - January 21, 2008
Washington Peace Convention was added in 2005