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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Berkeley County, S.C.</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 320,919 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Gaillard</a>, 1812</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>St. Thomas and St. Denis Parish, Charleston District County (now part of Berkeley County):</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bentsen-bereuter.html#298.97.63">Richard Beresford</a>, 1755</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>St. Stephens Parish, Charleston District County (now part of Berkeley County):</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#384.71.75">John Gaillard</a>, 1765 — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/white8.html#767.35.78">Sims White</a>, 1796 — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#181.43.81">Henry Augustus Gaillard</a>, 1837</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Charleston District County (part now in Berkeley County):</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/marianetti-markowitz.html#114.12.14">Robert Marion</a>, 1766 — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cain.html#232.50.69">William Cain</a>, 1792 — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/palmer.html#910.37.13">John Saunders Palmer</a>, 1804 — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dennis.html#602.33.01">Edward James Dennis</a>, 1844 — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#125.55.75">Huger Sinkler</a>, 1868</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Goose Creek:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stonebraker-stoughton.html#337.68.87">Thomas Porcher Stoney</a>, 1889</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Gumville:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rivers.html#832.37.78">L. Mendel Rivers</a>, 1905</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Macbeth:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dennis.html#727.65.87">E. J. Dennis</a>, 1877</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Otranto Plantation (now part of Hanahan):</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/faull-faxon.html#686.01.22">John B. Faust</a>, 1898</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Pineville:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#579.80.43">Franklin Gaillard</a>, 1829</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>Pinopolis:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dennis.html#632.32.30">Rembert C. Dennis</a>, 1915</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> <b>St. Stephen:</b> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#713.21.54">W. Tate Baggett, Jr.</a>, 1911</td></tr> <tr><td width=10> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13>  <i>See also</i> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ZZ-born.html">South Carolina birthplaces not assigned to counties</a>. </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></tr></table> <table width=100%> <td align="center" valign="center"> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td></table> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"><span style="font-size:20pt;"> <span style="font-family:garamond,serif"> <i>"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."</i></span></span><br> <span style="font-size:8pt;">Henry L. 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