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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Charleston 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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Pleasant <a href=" ">Christ Church Cemetery</a> <li>Mt. Pleasant <a href=" ">Venning Cemetery</a> <li>North Charleston <a href=" ">Carolina Memorial Park</a> <li>Sullivan's Island <a href="cms06063">Fort Moultrie National Monument</a> </ul> <hr> <a name="cms05060">Private or family graveyards</a> Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Parker (1759-1832) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1759/06-24.html">June 24, 1759</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1786-88. Died near Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/04-20.html">April 20, 1832</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 301 days</a>). Interment in a private or family graveyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000063">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408473">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians formerly buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Blake (1752-1810) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1752/index.html">1752</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1785, 1787-96, 1798-1800; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a>, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1790; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1802-10; died in office 1810. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/07-02.html">July 2, 1810</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</a>). Original interment at in a private or family graveyard; reinterment at <a href="#cms00368">Magnolia Cemetery</a>, Charleston, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Blake and Jane (Savage) Blake; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1777/11-27.html">November 27, 1777</a>, to Margaret Mercier.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/60753101">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms08149">Christ Church Cemetery</a> Adams Run, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Douglas Jenkins (1880-1961) — of Greenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/GR-lived.html">Greenville County</a>, S.C. Born in Adams Run, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/02-06.html">February 6, 1880</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper reporter</a>; U.S. Consul in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SQ-consuls.html ">St. Pierre and Miquelon</a>, 1908-12; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-consuls.html ">Gothenberg</a>, 1912-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LV-consuls.html ">Riga</a>, 1913-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Harbin</a>, 1918-22; U.S. Consul General in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/CH-consuls.html ">Canton</a>, as of 1924-29; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/HK-consuls.html ">Hong Kong</a>, as of 1932; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-consuls.html ">London</a>, as of 1938; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BV-diplomats.html ">Bolivia</a>, 1939-41. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1961/12-18.html">December 18, 1961</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 315 days</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Joseph Jenkins and Cecile (Swinton) Jenkins; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/02-06.html">February 6, 1905</a>, to Charlotte Keith Furman; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1918/08-23.html">August 23, 1918</a>, to Lucia Lesene Dean.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/jenkins-douglas ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/36357532">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Bethany Cemetery</a> 10 Cunnington Avenue Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=69499&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ernest Frederick Hollings (1922-2019) — also known as Ernest F. Hollings; Fritz Hollings; "Foghorn Leghorn" — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1922/01-01.html">January 1, 1922</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1949-55; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1955-59; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/SC.html">1956</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1996/SC.html">1996</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2000/SC.html">2000</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/2004/SC.html">2004</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1959-63; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1966-2005; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1984/index.html">1984</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/aba.html">American Bar Association</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/shriners.html">Shriners</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/vfw.html">Veterans of Foreign Wars</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/anc-ord-hibernians.html">Ancient Order of Hibernians</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sertoma.html">Sertoma</a>. Died in Isle of Palms, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2019/04-06.html">April 6, 2019</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/97.html">97 years, 95 days</a>). Interment at Bethany Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Cross-reference: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miles.html#667.33.74">Richard M. Miles</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The Hollings <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Judicial Center</a> (renamed in 2015 as the J. Watie Waring Judicial Center), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-names.html">Charleston, South Carolina</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000725">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=300053">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/ernest-frederick-hollings/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz Hollings">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/885/000022819">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0391118">Internet Movie Database profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/198134048">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books by Ernest Hollings: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570037604/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1570037604&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Making Government Work</a> (2008)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02811">Brotherhood Cemetery</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Ezekiel Miller (1849-1938) — also known as Thomas E. Miller — of Grahamville, Beaufort County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/JA-lived.html">Jasper County</a>), S.C. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/index.html">1849</a>. Republican. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Beaufort County, 1874-80, 1886-88, 1894-96; resigned 1896; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Beaufort County, 1880-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 7th District, 1889-91; defeated, 1890; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/SC.html">1896</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/univpres.html">president</a>, South Carolina Industrial, Normal, and Agricultural College, 1896. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1938/index.html">1938</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/89.html">about 89 years</a>). Interment at Brotherhood Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000757">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407735">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02802">Brown Fellowship Graveyard</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Carlos De Large (1842-1874) — also known as Robert C. De Large — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Aiken, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AI-born.html">Aiken County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/03-15.html">March 15, 1842</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cncn5.html">Delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention</a> from Charleston County, 1868; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1868-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 2nd District, 1871-73. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/02-14.html">February 14, 1874</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/31.html">31 years, 336 days</a>). Interment at Brown Fellowship Graveyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000208">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403313">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2208148&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Drayton (1766-1822) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1766/06-22.html">June 22, 1766</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/scientist.html">botanist</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1792-96, 1798, 1802-04; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1798-1800; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1800-02, 1808-10; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1803-04; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1805-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for South Carolina</a>, 1812-22. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/11-27.html">November 27, 1822</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 158 days</a>). Interment at Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#717.87.78">William Henry Drayton</a> and Dorothy (Golightly) Drayton; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1794/">1794</a> to Hester Rose Tidyman; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#873.60.45">John Drayton (1831-1912)</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#021.74.00">William Drayton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John Drayton (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; torpedoed and lost in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/IN-names.html">Indian Ocean</a>, 1943) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-drayton/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Drayton">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33586826">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Lyde Wilson (1784-1849) — of Georgetown, Georgetown District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/GO-lived.html">Georgetown County</a>), S.C. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/05-24.html">May 24, 1784</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1806-08, 1810, 1812-14, 1816-18 (Marlborough 1806-08, Prince George Winyah 1810, 1812-14, 1816-18); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/georgetown.html#2">intendant of Georgetown, South Carolina</a>, 1811-12; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Prince George Winyah, 1818-22, 1826-30; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1822-24; author Code of Honor, a rule book for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/duel-participants.html">dueling</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1849/02-12.html">February 12, 1849</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 264 days</a>). Interment at Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Wilson and Mary (Lyde) Wilson; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/12-31.html">December 31, 1809</a>, to Charlotte Alston (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/alston.html#089.37.58">Joseph Alston</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/">1825</a> to Rebecca Eden.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0094.html">Burr-Alston-Wilson-Ballard family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-lyde-wilson/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8359928">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Elias Edward Horry (1773-1834) — also known as Elias Horry — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1773/06-21.html">June 21, 1773</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">Intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1815-17, 1820-21. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/09-17.html">September 17, 1834</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/61.html">61 years, 88 days</a>). Interment at Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Horry and Ann Nancy (Branford) Horry; married to Harriet Vanderhorst and Mary Rutledge Shubrick; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hornbeck-horter.html#187.07.49">Peter Horry</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias Horry">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33590188">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Dawson Jr. (1765-1823) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1765/07-08.html">July 8, 1765</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">Intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1806-08. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/06-03.html">June 3, 1823</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 330 days</a>). Interment at Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Dawson and Joanna Broughton (Monck) Dawson; married to Mary Huger (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#805.72.33">John Huger</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Dawson Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33642505">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Burnham Cochran (1770-1833) — also known as Charles Cochran — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., February, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1770/index.html">1770</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1805-06. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/08-21.html">August 21, 1833</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1790/">1790</a> to Harriet Rachel Thomson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles Cochran (South Carolina)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/118703179">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Theodore Dehon Wagner (1819-1880) — also known as Theodore D. Wagner — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1819/03-24.html">March 24, 1819</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-62. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/02-23.html">February 23, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 336 days</a>). Interment at Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33686700">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms03646">Church of St. James</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Middleton (1717-1784) — of South Carolina. Born near Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1717/index.html">1717</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1774; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1778. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1784/06-13.html">June 13, 1784</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">about 66 years</a>). Interment at Church of St. James. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Arthur Middleton (1681-1737) and Susan (Amory) Middleton; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1741/">1741</a> to Mary Baker Williams; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1762/">1762</a> to Maria Henrietta Bull; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/">1776</a> to Lady Mary McKenzie; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#526.58.04">Arthur Middleton (1742-1787)</a>, Henrietta Middleton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#638.85.87">Edward Rutledge</a>) and Sarah Middleton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#959.68.88">Charles Cotesworth Pinckney</a>); uncle of Mary Middleton (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/butler7.html#294.60.30">Pierce Butler</a>); grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#064.87.59">Henry Middleton (1770-1846)</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#063.40.58">John Izard Middleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#405.03.32">Williams Middleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#496.84.45">John Middleton Huger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#873.60.45">John Drayton</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith2.html#818.20.40">Daniel Elliott Huger Smith</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#165.35.77">Benjamin Huger Rutledge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#190.80.45">Francis Fisher Kane</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Henry Middleton (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; scrapped 1971) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000698">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407682">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Middleton">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02333">Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Mathews (1744-1802) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1744/index.html">1744</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; circuit judge in South Carolina, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1776-80, 1785, 1787-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the South Carolina State House of Representatives</a>, 1777-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1778-81; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1782-83. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1802/11-17.html">November 17, 1802</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</a>). Interment at Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Mathews (1710-1759) and Sarah (Gibbes) Mathews; brother of Elizabeth Matthews (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/heyburn-hickerson.html#102.59.60">Thomas Heyward Jr.</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1766/12-04.html">December 4, 1766</a>, to Mary Wragg; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/05-05.html">May 5, 1799</a>, to Sarah Rutledge (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#303.50.98">John Rutledge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#638.85.87">Edward Rutledge</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000238">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407256">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-mathews/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Mathews (lawyer)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/37362324">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Hutson (1748-1795) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1748/07-09.html">July 9, 1748</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1776-79, 1781-82, 1785, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1778-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Articles of Confederation</a>, 1778; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/lgcn.html">South Carolina Legislative Council</a>, 1780-82; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1782-83; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1783-85; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a>, 1788. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/04-12.html">April 12, 1795</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 277 days</a>). Entombed at Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Mary (Woodward) Hutson and Rev. William Hutson.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H001017">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405854">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard Hutson">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6907417">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Laurens Pinckney (1794-1863) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1794/09-24.html">September 24, 1794</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1829-30, 1831-33; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1832; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1833-37 (1st District 1833-35, 6th District 1835-37); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1837-40; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/SCcc nCH">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1841-42. Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/02-03.html">February 3, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 132 days</a>). Interment at Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#391.24.68">Charles Pinckney (1757-1824)</a> and Mary Eleanor (Laurens) Pinckney; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/">1810</a> to Sabina Elliott Ramsey; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/">1814</a> to Rebecca Pinckney Elliott; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/">1825</a> to Harriet Lee Post; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/latno-lavorato.html#046.22.07">John Laurens</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/latno-lavorato.html#458.03.77">Henry Laurens</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#760.63.11">Charles Pinckney (1732-1782)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#959.68.88">Charles Cotesworth Pinckney</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#501.52.65">Thomas Pinckney</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000355">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408752">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry L. Pinckney">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6907362">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> David Ramsay (1749-1815) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LA-born.html">Lancaster County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1749/04-02.html">April 2, 1749</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1782-83, 1785-86; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1783-90; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1790-1800. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">Shot</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/murder.html">mortally wounded</a> by a crazed patient, and died two days later, in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/05-08.html">May 8, 1815</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 36 days</a>). Interment at Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Rufus Ramsay and Jane (Montgomery) Ramsay; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ramsay-randal.html#159.50.22">Nathaniel Ramsey</a>; married to Martha Laurens (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/latno-lavorato.html#458.03.77">Henry Laurens</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000023">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409005">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David Ramsay (congressman)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21086263">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Isaac Edward Holmes (1796-1867) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/sf-lived.html">San Francisco</a>, Calif. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1796/04-06.html">April 6, 1796</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1826-29, 1832-33; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1839-51 (4th District 1839-41, 5th District 1841-43, 6th District 1843-51). Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/02-24.html">February 24, 1867</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 324 days</a>). Interment at Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000738">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405589">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Bee Holmes (1760-1827) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1760/04-23.html">April 23, 1760</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1790-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1794-95; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1799-1802. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/09-05.html">September 5, 1827</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 135 days</a>). Interment at Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Isaac Holmes and Rebecca (Bee) Holmes; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1783/">1783</a> to Elizabeth Edwards (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/edwards5.html#275.03.48">John Edwards Jr.</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Bee Holmes">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10466905">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Jones (1742-1836) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1742/12-13.html">December 13, 1742</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1781-85, 1787-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1789-90. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/10-30.html">October 30, 1836</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/93.html">93 years, 322 days</a>). Interment at Circular Congregational Church Burying Ground. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1766/">1766</a> to Abigail Townsend.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Jones (South Carolina)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/37234334">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04215">First Baptist Churchyard</a> Church Street Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Shorten Henerey (1827-1871) — of South Carolina. Born in Beaufort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/01-02.html">January 2, 1827</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cncn4.html">Delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1865; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1865-66. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/baptist.html">Baptist</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/09-23.html">September 23, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 264 days</a>). Interment at First Baptist Churchyard. </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms05506">First Scots Presbyterian Churchyard</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Geddes (1777-1828) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1777/12-25.html">December 25, 1777</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1808-16; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1816-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1817-19, 1823-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1818-20. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/03-04.html">March 4, 1828</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 70 days</a>). Interment at First Scots Presbyterian Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Geddes and Elizabeth Geddes; married to Harriet Chalmers; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/">1805</a> to Anne Chalmers.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/geddes-john/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Geddes (politician)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8359979">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06868">Friendly Union Cemetery</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Demos Crum (1859-1912) — also known as William D. Crum — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1859/02-09.html">February 9, 1859</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1890; delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/SC.html">1896</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/committees.html">Resolutions Committee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/SC.html">1900</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/SCcc nCH">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1904-10; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/LB-diplomats.html ">Liberia</a>, 1910-12. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1912/12-07.html">December 7, 1912</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 302 days</a>). Interment at Friendly Union Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Darius Crum and Charlotte Crum; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/10-19.html">October 19, 1883</a>, to Ellen Craft.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/crum-william-demos ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Huguenot Church Cemetery</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1976146&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robin Leo Beard Jr. (1939-2007) — also known as Robin L. Beard, Jr. — of Tennessee. Born in Knoxville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/KX-born.html">Knox County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/08-21.html">August 21, 1939</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Tennessee</a> 6th District, 1973-83; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Tennessee</a>, 1982. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/brain-cancer.html">brain cancer</a>, in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/hospice.html">hospice</a> at Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2007/06-16.html">June 16, 2007</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 299 days</a>). Interment at Huguenot Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000280">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401274">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin Beard">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/318/000140895">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19938075">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Cemetery</a> Huguenin Avenue Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2225093&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Fatman (1852-1919) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-born.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1852/11-09.html">November 9, 1852</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton buyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-consuls.html">Consul for Belgium</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1883-94. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/jewish.html">Jewish</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/02-15.html">February 15, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 98 days</a>). Interment at Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/57349388">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms00368">Magnolia Cemetery</a> 70 Cunnington Avenue Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina Listed in National Register of Historic Places, 1978 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=70585&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/984/89.19.jpg" width=70 height=112 border=0 alt="Hugh S. Legaré"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Hugh Swinton Legaré (1797-1843) — also known as Hugh S. Legaré — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/01-02.html">January 2, 1797</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1820-21, 1824-30; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/attygn.html">South Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1830-32; U.S. Charge d'Affaires to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-diplomats.html ">Belgium</a>, 1832-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 5th District, 1837-39; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Attorney General</a>, 1841-43; died in office 1843. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> ancestry. Slaveowner. Died in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/06-20.html">June 20, 1843</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/46.html">46 years, 169 days</a>). Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/MI-buried.html#cms00204">Mt. Auburn Cemetery</a>, Cambridge, Mass.; reinterment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Solomon Legare and Mary (Swinton) Legare; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#205.63.05">George Swinton Legaré</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#102.72.44">William Storen Legaré</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#821.43.82">Thomas Allen Legaré Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/21489.html">Seabrook-Legare family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Hugh S. Legare (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/LA-names.html">Terminal Island, California</a>; scrapped 1959) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000220">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406724">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh S. Legaré">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/legare-hugh-swinton ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6859974">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Langdon Cheves (1776-1857) — of South Carolina. Born in Ninety Six District (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AB-born.html">Abbeville County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/09-17.html">September 17, 1776</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1806-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/attygn.html">South Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1808-10; candidate for Presidential Elector for South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1810-15; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/congr.html">Speaker of the U.S. House</a>, 1814-15. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-antiquarian-soc.html">American Antiquarian Society</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-died.html">Richland County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1857/06-26.html">June 26, 1857</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 282 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Alexander Cheves and Mary (Langdon) Cheves; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/">1806</a> to Mary Elizabeth Dulles; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#374.32.77">Langdon Cheves Jr.</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haskell.html#363.18.50">Lewis Wardlaw Haskell</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000350">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402489">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langdon Cheves">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8068657">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Burnet Rhett Maybank (1899-1954) — also known as Burnet R. Maybank — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/03-07.html">March 7, 1899</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">exporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1931-38; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/SC.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/SC.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/SC.html">1944</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/SC.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1939-41; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/SC.html">Democratic National Committee from South Carolina</a>, 1940; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1941-54; died in office 1954. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Flat Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HE-died.html">Henderson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/09-01.html">September 1, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 178 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joseph Maybank and Harriet Lowndes (Rhett) Maybank; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/">1923</a> to Elizabeth deRosset Myers; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/">1948</a> to Mary Cecil; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#819.54.94">Robert Barnwell Rhett</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aiken.html#486.73.74">William Aiken Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foy-franchot.html#897.08.73">John Edward Frampton</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#966.10.05">Andrew William Burnet</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#902.42.65">Thomas Lowndes</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#762.54.29">Henry William de Saussure</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#647.42.85">William Jones Lowndes</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#267.92.16">Rawlins Lowndes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#547.83.25">Daniel DeSaussure</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#467.25.67">William Ford DeSaussure</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#774.47.67">Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown2.html#133.27.94">Charles Pinckney Brown</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1232.html">VanRensselaer family</a> of Albany, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0128.html">DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000279">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407296">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/burnet-rhett-maybank/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnet R. Maybank">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8068668">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Schnierle (1808-1861) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/05-15.html">May 15, 1808</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">Mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1842-46, 1850-52. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/04-14.html">April 14, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 334 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Schnierle">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Goodwyn Rhett (1862-1939) — also known as R. Goodwyn Rhett — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-born.html">Richland County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/03-25.html">March 25, 1862</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1903-11; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/SC.html">1904</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1904/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/04-16.html">April 16, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 22 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Albert Moore Rhett and Martha (Goodwyn) Rhett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/11-15.html">November 15, 1888</a>, to Helen Smith Whaley; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1906/08-08.html">August 8, 1906</a>, to Blanche Salley; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#825.17.35">Robert Goodwyn Rhett Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R. Goodwyn Rhett">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12682020">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Elliott Huger (1779-1854) — of South Carolina. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BE-born.html">Berkeley County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/06-28.html">June 28, 1779</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1804-19; circuit judge in South Carolina, 1819-30; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1830-32, 1838-42; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1843-45; resigned 1845. Slaveowner. Died in Sullivan's Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/08-21.html">August 21, 1854</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 54 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#970.04.67">Daniel Huger</a> and Sabina (Elliott) Huger; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/12-01.html">December 1, 1800</a>, to Isabella Johannes Middleton (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#526.58.04">Arthur Middleton</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#496.84.45">John Middleton Huger</a>; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#805.72.33">John Huger</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith2.html#818.20.40">Daniel Elliott Huger Smith</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#086.64.11">Benjamin Huger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#003.51.39">Alfred Huger</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#630.25.99">Benjamin Frost Huger</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#125.55.75">Huger Sinkler (1868-1923)</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#620.65.07">Huger Sinkler (1908-1987)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000917">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405762">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel Elliott Huger">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6914962">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Dwight Bryan (1845-1919) — also known as George D. Bryan — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1845/09-26.html">September 26, 1845</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1887-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/SCcc nCH">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1894-98. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1919/06-04.html">June 4, 1919</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 251 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George D. Bryan">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Whilden Lockwood (1891-1944) — also known as Henry W. Lockwood — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/08-24.html">August 24, 1891</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">Mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1938-44; died in office 1944; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/SC.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/SC.html">1944</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/06-05.html">June 5, 1944</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/52.html">52 years, 286 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Robert Henry Lockwood and Ella Ann (Whilden) Lockwood; married to Emma Blohme.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry Whilden Lockwood">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/43584007">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2001699899/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/819/54.94.jpg" width=70 height=86 border=0 alt="Robert Barnwell Rhett"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876) — also known as Robert Rhett; Robert Barnwell Smith — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Beaufort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/12-21.html">December 21, 1800</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/attygn.html">South Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1832; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1837-49 (7th District 1837-39, 6th District 1839-41, 7th District 1841-49); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1850-52; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/SJ-died.html">St. James Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/09-14.html">September 14, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 268 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Hervey Smith and Marianna Barnwell (Gough) Smith; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/02-21.html">February 21, 1827</a>, to Elizabeth Washington Burnet (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#966.10.05">Andrew William Burnet</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1232.html">VanRensselaer family</a> of Albany, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0128.html">DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000184">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409160">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Rhett">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18826">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Robert Barnwell Rhett: William C. Davis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570034397/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1570034397&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, February 9, 1861</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Ashmead Courtenay (1831-1908) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C.; Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-lived.html">Richland County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/02-04.html">February 4, 1831</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/printing.html">Book publisher</a>; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1879-87. Died in Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-died.html">Richland County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/03-17.html">March 17, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 42 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Smith Courtenay and Elizabeth Storer (Wade) Courtenay; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1854/">1854</a> to Julia Anna Francis.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Courtenay <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-schools.html">School</a> (built 1888, rebuilt 1955, now the Charleston Progressive School), and Courtenay <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-road.html">Drive</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-names.html">Charleston, South Carolina</a>, are <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Ashmead Courtenay">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23275">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Bennett (1781-1865) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1781/08-14.html">August 14, 1781</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/architect.html">architect</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1804-06, 1808-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the South Carolina State House of Representatives</a>, 1814-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1812-13; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1819-20, 1836-40; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1820-22. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1865/01-30.html">January 30, 1865</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 169 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Bennett (1754-1814) and Anna Hayes (Warnock) Bennett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1801/02-19.html">February 19, 1801</a>, to Mary Lightbourn Stone; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/03-05.html">March 5, 1840</a>, to Jane (Burgess) Gordon; adoptive father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mellette-memorial.html#194.50.28">Christopher Gustavus Memminger</a>; father of Anna Margaret Bennett (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/campbell5.html#351.58.77">James Butler Campbell</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11471.html">Memminger-Bennett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MR-names.html">Bennettsville, South Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-bennett/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Bennett Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20943337">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Peter Charles Gaillard (1812-1889) — also known as Peter C. Gaillard — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BE-born.html">Berkeley County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/12-29.html">December 29, 1812</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; hit by a shell during the war, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">lost his left arm</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1865-68. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/01-11.html">January 11, 1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 13 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Porcher Gaillard and Harriet (Porcher) Gaillard; married to Anne Lawrence Snowden; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#191.53.28">John Palmer Gaillard Jr.</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snowbarger-snowfield.html#143.12.22">Peter Gaillard Snowden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#579.80.43">Franklin Gaillard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#181.43.81">Henry Augustus Gaillard</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#384.71.75">John Gaillard</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stonebraker-stoughton.html#337.68.87">Thomas Porcher Stoney</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunt.html#669.18.10">Theodore Gaillard Hunt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bondurant-boog.html#142.11.90">Peter Porcher Bonneau</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/popiel-porteous.html#893.73.99">Francis James Porcher</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miles.html#516.84.16">William Porcher Miles</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10236.html">Gaillard family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7919240">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Aiken Jr. (1806-1887) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/01-28.html">January 28, 1806</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1838-42; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1842-44; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1844-46; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1851-57 (6th District 1851-53, 2nd District 1853-57); delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1872/SC.html">1872</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Flat Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HE-died.html">Henderson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1887/09-06.html">September 6, 1887</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 221 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Aiken and Henrietta (Wyatt) Aiken; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/02-03.html">February 3, 1831</a>, to Harriett Lowndes (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#902.42.65">Thomas Lowndes</a>); great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aiken.html#036.12.32">David Wyatt Aiken</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1232.html">VanRensselaer family</a> of Albany, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0128.html">DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AI.html">Aiken County, S.C.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000063">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400723">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-aiken/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Aiken, Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6719543">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Lee Trenholm (1836-1901) — also known as William L. Trenholm — Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1836/02-03.html">February 3, 1836</a>. Colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, 1886-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance executive</a>. Died in Manhattan, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/01-11.html">January 11, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 342 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trelease-trimarchi.html#975.84.96">George Alfred Trenholm</a> and Anna Helen (Holmes) Trenholm.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William L. Trenholm">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/39066148">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://occ.treas.gov/about/who-we-are/history/previous-comptrollers/bio-06-william-trenholm.html">Comptrollers of the Currency</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Irvin Cunningham (1835-1902) — also known as George I. Cunningham — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/MN-born.html">Monroe County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1835/09-08.html">September 8, 1835</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">Mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1873-77; delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1896/SC.html">1896</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/SC.html">1900</a>; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#3">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1898-1902. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1902/11-29.html">November 29, 1902</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 82 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George I. Cunningham">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Frederick Ficken Jr. (1843-1925) — also known as John F. Ficken — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/06-18.html">June 18, 1843</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/SC.html">1876</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1876-91; resigned 1891; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1891-95. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/german.html">German</a> ancestry. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/04-16.html">April 16, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 302 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Frederick Ficken and Rebecca (von Beversen) Ficken; married to Margaret Buckingham Horlbeck and Emma Julia Blum.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John F. Ficken">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/27326909">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Tristram Tupper Hyde (1862-1931) — also known as Tristram T. Hyde — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-born.html">Richland County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/07-03.html">July 3, 1862</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/realestate.html">Real estate business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1915-19; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/SC.html">1916</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/committees.html">Committee on Rules and Order of Business</a>). Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1931/01-27.html">January 27, 1931</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 208 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Simeon Hyde and Ann Elizabeth (Tupper) Hyde; married to Minnie Bell Black and Sue Estell Thomas.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristram T. Hyde">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/41179936">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew Gordon Magrath (1813-1893) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1813/02-08.html">February 8, 1813</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for South Carolina</a>, 1856-60; resigned 1860; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-61; resigned 1861; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sos.html">secretary of state of South Carolina</a>, 1860-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1864-65. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Ousted</a> as Governor by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/civil-war-slavery.html">Union authorities</a> in 1865 and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">imprisoned</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/04-09.html">April 9, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">80 years, 60 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=1462&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/andrew-gordon-macgrath/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/magrath-andrew-gordon">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ernest Edward Wehman Jr. (1891-1964) — also known as E. Edward Wehman, Jr. — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/12-27.html">December 27, 1891</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">Insurance business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1944-47. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1964/05-01.html">May 1, 1964</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 126 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Helen Stone Tilley.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E. Edward Wehman Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/49863485">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Alfred Trenholm (1807-1876) — also known as George A. Trenholm — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/02-25.html">February 25, 1807</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">Banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1852, 1853-56, 1874-76 (St. Philip & St. Michael 1852, 1853-56, Charleston County 1874-76); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/confed.html">Confederate Secretary of the Treasury</a>, 1864-65. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Arrested</a> by <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/civil-war-slavery.html">Union forces</a> in 1865, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">imprisoned</a> at Fort Pulaski, Tennessee, until October. Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/12-09.html">December 9, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 288 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Trenholm and Elizabeth Irene (De Griffin) Trenholm; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/">1828</a> to Anna Helen Holmes; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trelease-trimarchi.html#735.97.32">William Lee Trenholm</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Trenholm">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/14733778">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Hiram Brawley (1841-1916) — also known as William H. Brawley; William Huggins Brawley — of Chester, Chester District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CT-lived.html">Chester County</a>), S.C.; Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Chester, Chester District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CT-born.html">Chester County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1841/05-13.html">May 13, 1841</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines, Va., 1862, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/disabled.html">lost an arm</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1882-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1891-94; resigned 1894; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for South Carolina</a>, 1894-1911; retired 1911. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1916/11-15.html">November 15, 1916</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 186 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Marion Emma Porter and Mildred Boykin Frost; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#027.03.16">Robert Witherspoon Hemphill</a>; cousin *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/helme-hendershott.html#273.57.91">John James Hemphill</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10150.html">Hemphill family</a> of Chester, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000775">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401734">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=245&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7118026">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Arthur Bonnell Schirmer Jr. (1933-2008) — also known as Arthur B. Schirmer, Jr.; "Bro" — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1933/02-24.html">February 24, 1933</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">Mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1975. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2008/07-18.html">July 18, 2008</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 145 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur B. Schirmer Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28374852">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Sanders McMillan (1888-1939) — also known as Thomas S. McMillan — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born near Ulmers, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AL-born.html">Allendale County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1888/11-27.html">November 27, 1888</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1916-24; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1925-39; died in office 1939; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/SC.html">1936</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1939/09-29.html">September 29, 1939</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 306 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcmillan.html#746.65.97">Clara Gooding McMillan</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000572">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407562">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Richard Smith Whaley (1874-1951) — also known as Richard S. Whaley — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/07-15.html">July 15, 1874</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1900-10, 1912-13; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the South Carolina State House of Representatives</a>, 1907-10; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/SC.html">1912</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1912/committees.html">Committee to Notify Presidential Nominee</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1920/SC.html">1920</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1913-21; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/judicial.html#f">Judge of U.S. Court of Claims</a>, 1930. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1951/index.html">1951</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">about 76 years</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000319">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=411481">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Swinton Legaré (1869-1913) — also known as George S. Legaré — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Rockville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/11-11.html">November 11, 1869</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1903-13; died in office 1913. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/phi-kappa-psi.html">Phi Kappa Psi</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1913/01-31.html">January 31, 1913</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 81 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Thomas Legaré and Katherine Malcolmson (Graves) Legaré; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/">1893</a> to Mary Frances Izlar (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ivey-izlar.html#342.99.78">James Ferdinand Izlar</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#102.72.44">William Storen Legaré</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#821.43.82">Thomas Allen Legaré Jr.</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#984.89.19">Hugh Swinton Legaré</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#199.66.89">Marion Wainwright Seabrook</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#962.84.61">Ephraim Mikell Seabrook</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/21489.html">Seabrook-Legare family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000219">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406723">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6914968">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Turner Logan (1874-1941) — also known as W. Turner Logan — of South Carolina. Born in Summerville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/DO-born.html">Dorchester County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/06-21.html">June 21, 1874</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1900-04; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1921-25. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1941/09-15.html">September 15, 1941</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 86 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000406">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406897">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Julius Waties Waring (1880-1968) — also known as Julius W. Waring — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/07-27.html">July 27, 1880</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of South Carolina</a>, 1942-52; took senior status 1952. Died in New York City (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ZZ-died.html">unknown county</a>), N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1968/01-11.html">January 11, 1968</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/87.html">87 years, 168 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Perry Waring and Anna Thomasine (Waties) Waring; married to Annie Gammell and Elizabeth Avery.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The J. Waties Waring <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">Judicial Center</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CH/CH-names.html">Charleston, South Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2504&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius Waties Waring">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/46178808">Find-A-Grave memorial</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/history/judges/waring-julius-waties">Biographical Directory of Federal Judges</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William John Grayson (1788-1863) — of South Carolina. Born in Beaufort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/11-02.html">November 2, 1788</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1813-15, 1822-25; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1826-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 2nd District, 1833-37. Slaveowner. Died in Newberry, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/NE-died.html">Newberry County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/10-04.html">October 4, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/74.html">74 years, 336 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000404">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404754">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6914979">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Conner (1829-1883) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/09-01.html">September 1, 1829</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for South Carolina</a>, 1856-60; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1861-62; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/rm-died.html">Richmond</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/06-26.html">June 26, 1883</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/53.html">53 years, 298 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conner.html#251.44.56">Henry Workman Conner</a> and Julianna Margaret (Courtney) Conner; married to Sarah Lambert 'Sallie' Enders.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9257">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Phillips (1803-1875) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1803/index.html">1803</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1861-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for South Carolina</a>, 1866-67. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/02-01.html">February 1, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/71.html">about 71 years</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/27842424">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Clara Gooding McMillan (1894-1976) — also known as Clara G. McMillan — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Brunson, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/HA-born.html">Hampton County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/08-17.html">August 17, 1894</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1939-41; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/SC.html">1940</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Died in Barnwell, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BR-died.html">Barnwell County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1976/11-08.html">November 8, 1976</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 83 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mcmillan.html#246.51.09">Thomas Sanders McMillan</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000565">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407556">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alfred Huger (1788-1872) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/11-01.html">November 1, 1788</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1818-33; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#3">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1834-67. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/05-11.html">May 11, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 192 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#805.72.33">John Huger</a> and Ann (Broun) Huger; married to Sarah Ann Rutledge (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#303.50.98">John Rutledge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#638.85.87">Edward Rutledge</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#573.13.74">John Rutledge Jr.</a>); nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#970.04.67">Daniel Huger</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#630.25.99">Benjamin Frost Huger</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#125.55.75">Huger Sinkler (1868-1923)</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#620.65.07">Huger Sinkler (1908-1987)</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#086.64.11">Benjamin Huger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#668.97.80">Daniel Elliott Huger</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#496.84.45">John Middleton Huger</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith2.html#818.20.40">Daniel Elliott Huger Smith</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29731073">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Nelson Taft (1847-1889) — also known as William N. Taft — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Smithfield, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/index.html">1847</a>. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Charleston County, 1876-80; postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#3">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1881-85; delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1884/SC.html">1884</a>. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1889/index.html">1889</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/42.html">about 42 years</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nathan Taft and Harriet Taft; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/08-02.html">August 2, 1881</a>, to Mary Richardson Moses; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#083.03.95">Peter Rawson Taft</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stockwell-stokely.html#002.10.93">Celora Martin Stoddard</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/taft.html#366.03.29">Alphonso Taft</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/thayer.html#167.23.46">John Milton Thayer</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0194.html">Davis family</a> of Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0260.html">Adams-Rusling family</a> (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/44477755">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure (1822-1886) — also known as Wilmot G. de Saussure — Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/07-23.html">July 23, 1822</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1848-49, 1854-57, 1860-63; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/adgen.html">Adjutant General of South Carolina</a>, 1862. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died in Ocala, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/MR-died.html">Marion County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/02-01.html">February 1, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 193 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry A. de Saussure and Susan (Boone) de Saussure; married to Martha Gourdin; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#467.25.67">William Ford DeSaussure</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#762.54.29">Henry William de Saussure</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#547.83.25">Daniel DeSaussure</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#966.10.05">Andrew William Burnet</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0128.html">DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7941579">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Butler Campbell (1808-1883) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Oxford, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/WO-born.html">Worcester County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/10-27.html">October 27, 1808</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1850-55, 1862-64, 1865-66 (St. Philip & St. Michael 1850-55, 1862-64, Charleston 1865-66); delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1868/SC.html">1868</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Charleston County, 1877-78; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1882. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/lung.html">congestion of the lungs</a>, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1883/11-08.html">November 8, 1883</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 12 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Archibald C. Campbell and Celia (Butler) Campbell; married to Anna Margaret Bennett (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bennett8.html#478.90.25">Thomas Bennett</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11471.html">Memminger-Bennett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/43164691">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Otto Witte (1823-1908) — also known as Karl Otto Witte — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Blomberg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/11-23.html">November 23, 1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">Importer and exporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SW-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Sweden & Norway</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1865-1903; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-consuls.html">Consul for Germany</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1871-1907; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AH-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Austria-Hungary</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1881-1907. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/03-02.html">March 2, 1908</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/84.html">84 years, 100 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Johann Friedrich Witte and Christianna (Linnemann) Witte; married to Charlotte Sophia Reeves.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/42523170">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jacob Motte Alston Pringle (1827-1886) — also known as Motte A. Pringle — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/11-09.html">November 9, 1827</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/AR-consuls.html">Consul for Argentina</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1849-86; major in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/11-27.html">November 27, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/59.html">59 years, 18 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Bull Pringle and Mary Motte (Alston) Pringle; married to Gabriella Ravenel; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith2.html#818.20.40">Daniel Elliott Huger Smith</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/139783869">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Blake (1752-1810) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1752/index.html">1752</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1785, 1787-96, 1798-1800; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a>, 1788; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1790; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1802-10; died in office 1810. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1810/07-02.html">July 2, 1810</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</a>). Original interment at <a href="#cms05060">a private or family graveyard</a>, Charleston County, S.C.; reinterment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Edward Blake and Jane (Savage) Blake; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1777/11-27.html">November 27, 1777</a>, to Margaret Mercier.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/60753101">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Huger Sinkler (1868-1923) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C.; Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-lived.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C. Born in Charleston District (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BE-born.html">Berkeley County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1868/02-20.html">February 20, 1868</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1896-1906; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Charleston County, 1906-18; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1916/SC.html">1916</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-died.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/08-13.html">August 13, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 174 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Sinkler and Mary Elizabeth (Simons) Sinkler; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/04-04.html">April 4, 1907</a>, to Anna Wilkinson Marshall; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#620.65.07">Huger Sinkler (1908-1987)</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#003.51.39">Alfred Huger</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#805.72.33">John Huger</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#970.04.67">Daniel Huger</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/manners-manning.html#138.54.88">Richard Irvine Manning</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#630.25.99">Benjamin Frost Huger</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#086.64.11">Benjamin Huger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#668.97.80">Daniel Elliott Huger</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#496.84.45">John Middleton Huger</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith2.html#818.20.40">Daniel Elliott Huger Smith</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0164.html">Richardson-Manning family</a> of South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/25502717">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Storen Legaré (1900-1930) — also known as William S. Legaré — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1900/01-06.html">January 6, 1900</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1924-26; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Charleston County, 1926-30; died in office 1930. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/sigma-alpha-epsilon.html">Sigma Alpha Epsilon</a>. Fatally injured in an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">automobile accident</a> near Wolfton, S.C., and died two hours later in a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/misc-hospitals.html">hospital</a> at Orangeburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/OR-died.html">Orangeburg County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1930/02-07.html">February 7, 1930</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/30.html">30 years, 32 days</a>). Also killed was Sen. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martin9.html#632.20.34">W. Claude Martin</a>; Rep. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith5.html#139.00.06">J. Rutledge Smith, Jr.</a> was injured but survived. Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#205.63.05">George Swinton Legaré</a> and Mary Frances (Izlar) Legaré; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/06-26.html">June 26, 1924</a>, to Lila Ewart Rhett; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ivey-izlar.html#342.99.78">James Ferdinand Izlar</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#984.89.19">Hugh Swinton Legaré</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#821.43.82">Thomas Allen Legaré Jr.</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#199.66.89">Marion Wainwright Seabrook</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/21489.html">Seabrook-Legare family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/155549381">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Arthur Rutledge Young (1876-1947) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Sewanee, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TN/FR-born.html">Franklin County</a>, Tenn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/07-03.html">July 3, 1876</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1916-18; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Charleston County, 1918-22, 1925-26. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1947/05-16.html">May 16, 1947</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 317 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Edward Young and Elizabeth (Rutledge) Young; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1907/12-19.html">December 19, 1907</a>, to Nannie Cabell Conner.</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Samuel Thane Poinier (1837-1909) — also known as Samuel T. Poinier — of Spartanburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/SP-lived.html">Spartanburg County</a>, S.C. Born in Cincinnati, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/OH/HA-born.html">Hamilton County</a>, Ohio, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/03-17.html">March 17, 1837</a>. Republican. Postmaster at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/spartanburg.html#3">Spartanburgh Court House, S.C.</a>, 1866-69, 1880-86; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/spartanburg.html#2">Spartanburg, S.C.</a>, 1890-94, 1899-1909; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1900/SC.html">1900</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1909/03-27.html">March 27, 1909</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/72.html">72 years, 10 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/112668185">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1861-1925) — also known as Benjamin H. Rutledge — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/09-04.html">September 4, 1861</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1890-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BG-consuls.html">Consul for Belgium</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1907. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1925/11-12.html">November 12, 1925</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">64 years, 69 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#225.35.30">Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1829-1893)</a> and Eleanor (Middleton) Rutledge; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/10-05.html">October 5, 1892</a>, to Emma Blake; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#063.40.58">John Izard Middleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#405.03.32">Williams Middleton</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#064.87.59">Henry Middleton (1770-1846)</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#303.50.98">John Rutledge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#638.85.87">Edward Rutledge</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#526.58.04">Arthur Middleton</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#670.69.30">Henry Middleton (1717-1784)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#573.13.74">John Rutledge Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith8.html#272.20.23">Thomas Rhett Smith</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#496.84.45">John Middleton Huger</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#190.80.45">Francis Fisher Kane</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith2.html#818.20.40">Daniel Elliott Huger Smith</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#873.60.45">John Drayton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Elliott Huger Smith (1846-1932) — also known as D. E. Huger Smith — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1846/04-02.html">April 2, 1846</a>. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Denmark</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1877-1902. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/03-05.html">March 5, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 338 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Mason Smith and Eliza Middleton (Huger) Smith; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/11-16.html">November 16, 1869</a>, to Caroline Ravenel; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#496.84.45">John Middleton Huger</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#668.97.80">Daniel Elliott Huger</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#064.87.59">Henry Middleton (1770-1846)</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#970.04.67">Daniel Huger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#526.58.04">Arthur Middleton</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#805.72.33">John Huger</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#670.69.30">Henry Middleton (1717-1784)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#063.40.58">John Izard Middleton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#405.03.32">Williams Middleton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/princeton-prociuk.html#770.31.67">Jacob Motte Alston Pringle</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#086.64.11">Benjamin Huger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#003.51.39">Alfred Huger</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#873.60.45">John Drayton</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#630.25.99">Benjamin Frost Huger</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#165.35.77">Benjamin Huger Rutledge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kane.html#190.80.45">Francis Fisher Kane</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#125.55.75">Huger Sinkler (1868-1923)</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#620.65.07">Huger Sinkler (1908-1987)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0164.html">Richardson-Manning family</a> of South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33421197">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1829-1893) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Statesburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/SU-born.html">Sumter County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/06-04.html">June 4, 1829</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-62; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1876-80. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1893/04-30.html">April 30, 1893</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 330 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Alice Ann (Weston) Rutledge and Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1797-1832); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/">1858</a> to Eleanor Maria Middleton; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#165.35.77">Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1861-1925)</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#303.50.98">John Rutledge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#638.85.87">Edward Rutledge</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#573.13.74">John Rutledge Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith8.html#272.20.23">Thomas Rhett Smith</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29682930">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Young Simons (1828-1878) — also known as Thomas Y. Simons — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/10-01.html">October 1, 1828</a>. Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1860/SC.html">1860</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1872/SC.html">1872</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-62; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper editor</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/SC.html">Democratic National Committee from South Carolina</a>, 1876. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/04-30.html">April 30, 1878</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 211 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/27206607">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Stephen Robinson Bell (1860-1897) — also known as Stephen R. Bell — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/06-13.html">June 13, 1860</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">Cotton</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">exporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/RU-consuls.html">Honorary Vice-Consul for Russia</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1892-97. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> ancestry. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/AI-died.html">Aiken County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1897/02-08.html">February 8, 1897</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/36.html">36 years, 240 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Bell, Jr. and Susan (Robinson) Bell; married to Elizabeth Tavel; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/robertson.html#962.88.90">John Brownlee Robertson</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/177146909">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Marsh Seignious (1847-1923) — also known as James M. Seignious — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1847/11-04.html">November 4, 1847</a>. Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/accounting.html">accountant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton factor</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">financier</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Denmark</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1901-07. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a>, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Died in Summerville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/DO-died.html">Dorchester County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/01-24.html">January 24, 1923</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 81 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Francis P. Seignious and Martha Hester (Wightman) Seignious; married to Christiana Hannah Pelzer; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1891/01-05.html">January 5, 1891</a>, to Esther Barnwell Heyward.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/43044564">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Langdon Cheves Jr. (1814-1863) — Born in Pennsylvania, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/index.html">1814</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/engineer.html">Engineer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Peter's, 1860-62; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Hit by a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/gunshot.html">shell</a>, and killed, while defending the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Confederate-held</a> battery on Morris Island, Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1863/07-10.html">July 10, 1863</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">about 49 years</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chertov-childers.html#334.73.45">Langdon Cheves</a> and Mary Elizabeth (Dulles) Cheves; married to Charlotte Lorain McCord; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/haskell.html#363.18.50">Lewis Wardlaw Haskell</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#594.09.65">John Foster Dulles</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dukes-dunblazier.html#661.62.14">Allen Welsh Dulles</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0001.html">Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin family</a> of Connecticut and New York (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/10652930">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Pinckney Brown (1823-1864) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in South Carolina, May, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/index.html">1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/teacher.html">School teacher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. James, Goose Creek, 1860-62; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/civil-war.html">Killed in battle</a> at Drewrys Bluff, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/CF-died.html">Chesterfield County</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1864/05-14.html">May 14, 1864</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">about 41 years</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Sarah Elizabeth (Smith) Brown and Charles Tennent Brown; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#267.92.16">Rawlins Lowndes</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#902.42.65">Thomas Lowndes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#647.42.85">William Jones Lowndes</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/boude-bowe.html#418.31.89">Elias Boudinot</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/dousman-dovey.html#344.96.00">Volkert Petrus Douw</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#985.46.99">Jeremiah Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#986.83.99">Robert Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#846.85.53">Hendrick Kiliaen Van Rensselaer</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#159.84.16">Killian Killian Van Rensselaer</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#749.66.51">Leonard Gansevoort</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#582.86.02">Leonard Gansevoort Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/vann-vanvorhis.html#474.51.31">Jacob Rutsen Van Rensselaer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#631.01.66">Philip Jeremiah Schuyler</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/schuyler.html#291.10.40">Philip Schuyler</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hamilton.html#279.13.10">James Alexander Hamilton</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gambrell-garcelon.html#701.93.68">Peter Gansevoort</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0003.html">Livingston-Schuyler family</a> of New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1232.html">VanRensselaer family</a> of Albany, New York (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/14154853">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Sanders O'Hear (1806-1875) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1806/09-06.html">September 6, 1806</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Thomas' & St. Dennis', 1860-62. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1875/09-21.html">September 21, 1875</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 15 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Anna Berwick Legare.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/45781158">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Henry Brown (1809-1879) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/12-31.html">December 31, 1809</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Andrew's, 1860-62. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1879/03-25.html">March 25, 1879</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/69.html">69 years, 84 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joshua Brown and Harriett Louise (Wyatt) Brown; married to Sarah Anna Calhoun (third great-granddaughter of Cotton Mather; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#210.17.82">John Caldwell Calhoun</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#429.98.13">William Francis Calhoun</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0250.html">Calhoun-Pickens family</a> of South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/29186357">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew William Burnet (1811-1896) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Colleton District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CO-born.html">Colleton County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/06-12.html">June 12, 1811</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-62. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/12-06.html">December 6, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 177 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Andrew William Burnet (1763-1814) and Elizabeth Washington (de Saussure) Burnet; brother of Elizabeth Washington Burnet (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#819.54.94">Robert Barnwell Rhett</a>); married to Anne Burgh Smith; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#762.54.29">Henry William de Saussure</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#547.83.25">Daniel DeSaussure</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#467.25.67">William Ford DeSaussure</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#774.47.67">Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0128.html">DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/42326279">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Alfred Merchant (1862-1932) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VA/ax-born.html">Alexandria</a>, Va., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/01-13.html">January 13, 1862</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-consuls.html">Honorary Vice-Consul for Spain</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1897-98. Died in St. Petersburg, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/PI-died.html">Pinellas County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1932/01-16.html">January 16, 1932</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 3 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Henrietta Cathcart.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/61357136">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Goodwyn Rhett Jr. (1894-1985) — also known as Robert G. Rhett, Jr. — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/12-07.html">December 7, 1894</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Brazil</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1926. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1985/03-01.html">March 1, 1985</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/90.html">90 years, 84 days</a>). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#807.84.07">Robert Goodwyn Rhett</a> and Alice Smith (Whalley) Rhett; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1917/10-15.html">October 15, 1917</a>, to Mildred Beauregard Bobb.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/21584504">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms07916">Marion Park</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.jamessmithnoelcollection.org/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/210/17.82.jpg" width=70 height=90 border=0 alt="John C. Calhoun"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) — also known as John C. Calhoun — of Pickens District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/PI-lived.html">Pickens County</a>), S.C. Born in Abbeville District (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MC-born.html">McCormick County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/03-18.html">March 18, 1782</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1808; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 6th District, 1811-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1817-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1825-32; resigned 1832; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1832-43, 1845-50; died in office 1850; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1844-45. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/03-31.html">March 31, 1850</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 13 days</a>). Interment at <a href="#cms01667">St. Philip's Churchyard</a>; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at Marion Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Patrick Calhoun and Martha (Caldwell) Calhoun; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/12-27.html">December 27, 1809</a>, to Floride Bonneau and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#902.99.62">Floride Calhoun</a> (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/colen-collingwood.html#989.03.32">John Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)</a>); father of Anna Maria Calhoun (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clementson-cletus.html#133.51.85">Thomas Green Clemson</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#800.59.25">John Alfred Calhoun</a> and Martha Catherine Calhoun (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burruss-burtness.html#830.81.52">Armistead Burt</a>); great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graves.html#541.07.78">John Temple Graves</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/colen-collingwood.html#989.03.32">John Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#617.76.19">Joseph Calhoun</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillipson-picket.html#395.65.80">Andrew Pickens</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillipson-picket.html#144.57.37">Francis Wilkinson Pickens</a>; second cousin once removed of Sarah Ann Calhoun (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#485.68.41">Alexander Henry Brown</a>); second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#429.98.13">William Francis Calhoun</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0250.html">Calhoun-Pickens family</a> of South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Calhoun counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CA.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/CU.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/CA.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CJ.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CN.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CO.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CL.html">Mich.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/CU.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CA.html">S.C.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CU.html">Tex.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/CH.html">W.Va.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The John C. Calhoun <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">State Office Building</a> (opened 1926), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-names.html">Columbia, South Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a> Calhoun (now known by its Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-names.html">Minneapolis, Minnesota</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John C. Calhoun (built 1941-42 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; destroyed in cargo explosion at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PN-names.html">Finchhafen, Papua New Guinea</a>, 1944) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson5.html#585.81.84">John C. Johnson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nexsen-nicholoff.html#763.09.32">John Calhoun Nicholls</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cook5.html#149.37.05">John Calhoun Cook</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sheppard.html#624.39.02">John C. Sheppard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bell.html#825.29.95">John C. Bell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayne-mcallen.html#520.96.43">John C. C. Mayo</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillips.html#834.82.33">John C. Phillips</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on Confederate States $1,000 notes (1861) and $100 notes (1862).</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan: "Liberty dearer than union."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000044">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402205">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John C. Calhoun">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/902/000043773">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2437">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about John C. Calhoun: Margaret L. Coit, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0872497755/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0872497755&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John C. Calhoun : American Portrait</a> — Clyde N. Wilson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0313280819/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0313280819&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John C. Calhoun</a> — Merrill D. Peterson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195056868/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195056868&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun</a> — Warren Brown, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0791017273/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0791017273&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John C. Calhoun</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: James Smith Noel Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">St. Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Jacob F. Mintzing (d. 1842) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">Lumber merchant</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1820-35; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1840-42; died in office 1842. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lutheran.html">Lutheran</a>. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stomach-cancer.html">stomach cancer</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1842/03-14.html">March 14, 1842</a>. Interment at St. Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob F. Mintzing">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward W. North (1778-1843) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1778/index.html">1778</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1833-36. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/05-15.html">May 15, 1843</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/64.html">about 64 years</a>). Interment at St. Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward W. North">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02792">St. Lawrence Cemetery</a> 60 Huguenin Avenue Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=1622996&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Patrick Grace (1874-1940) — also known as John P. Grace — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/12-30.html">December 30, 1874</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">newspaper publisher</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1911-15, 1919-23. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/irish.html">Irish</a> ancestry. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1940/06-25.html">June 25, 1940</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/65.html">65 years, 178 days</a>). Interment at St. Lawrence Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Ella Barkley Sullivan.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The John P. Grace <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-bridges.html">Bridge</a> (built 1929, replaced and removed 2005), over the Cooper River from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-names.html">Charleston to Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John P. Grace">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/46384845">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Michael Patrick O'Connor (1831-1881) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Beaufort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/09-29.html">September 29, 1831</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1858-66; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1872/SC.html">1872</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1876/SC.html">1876</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 2nd District, 1879-81; died in office 1881. Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/04-26.html">April 26, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/49.html">49 years, 209 days</a>). Interment at St. Lawrence Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000031">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408279">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8068705">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Christopher Columbus Bowen (1832-1880) — of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Providence, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/RI/PR-born.html">Providence County</a>, R.I., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/01-05.html">January 5, 1832</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 2nd District, 1867-71; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cncn5.html">delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention</a> from Charleston County, 1868; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1871-72; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-officials.html">Charleston County Sheriff</a>, 1873-80. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/catholic.html">Catholic</a>. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1880/06-23.html">June 23, 1880</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 170 days</a>). Interment at St. Lawrence Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/pols-named-for-famous.html">Christopher Columbus</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000681">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=401643">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6914870">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Ditlev Frederik Grube (1861-1892) — also known as D. F. Grube — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Marstal, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/DE-born.html">Denmark</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/09-22.html">September 22, 1861</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NL-consuls.html">Consul for Netherlands</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1891-92. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1892/03-14.html">March 14, 1892</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/30.html">30 years, 174 days</a>). Interment at St. Lawrence Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/225628404">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Eugene Huchet (1816-1878) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/index.html">1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/BZ-consuls.html">Vice-Consul for Brazil</a> in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-consuls.html">Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1866-77. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/kidney.html">Bright's disease</a>, in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1878/07-23.html">July 23, 1878</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">about 62 years</a>). Interment at St. Lawrence Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Marie Eleanora Huchet and Charles Huchet; married to Leonide Esdra; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hubbeel-hudnut.html#665.65.22">Charles Frederick Huchet</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/86224806">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01873">St. Michael's Church Cemetery</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=641364&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1746/02-25.html">February 25, 1746</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#638.85.87">Edward Rutledge</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1783-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1790-96, 1800-04; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/FR-diplomats.html ">France</a>, 1796-97; received one electoral vote, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp-1796.html">1796</a>; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1800; candidate for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">President of the United States</a>, 1804 (Federalist), 1808. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1825/08-16.html">August 16, 1825</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 172 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Pinckney (1699-1758) and Elizabeth (Lucas) Pinckney; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#501.52.65">Thomas Pinckney</a>; married to Sarah Middleton (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#670.69.30">Henry Middleton (1717-1784)</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#526.58.04">Arthur Middleton</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#064.87.59">Henry Middleton (1770-1846)</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1786/">1786</a> to Mary Stead; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#760.63.11">Charles Pinckney (1732-1782)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#391.24.68">Charles Pinckney (1757-1824)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#726.31.99">Henry Laurens Pinckney</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/PR-names.html">Pinckneyville, Illinois</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nason-nazaire.html#670.13.29">Charles P. H. Nason</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mccartney-mccleery.html#231.70.67">Charles Pinckney McCarver</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/meagher-meek.html#782.74.29">Cotesworth P. Means</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan: "Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles Cotesworth Pinckney">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/pinckney-charles-cotesworth ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/081/000049931">NNDB dossier</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: Marvin R. Zahniser, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807810444/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807810444&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Founding Father</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/96512880/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/303/50.98.jpg" width=70 height=105 border=0 alt="John Rutledge"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Rutledge (1739-1800) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1739/09-18.html">September 18, 1739</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/hcom.html">South Carolina House of Commons</a>, 1761-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/attygn.html">South Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1764-65; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1774; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/pres.html">President of South Carolina</a>, 1776-78; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1779-82; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1782, 1784-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a>, 1788; received 6 electoral votes, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp-1789.html">1789</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1789-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1795; common pleas court judge in South Carolina, 1791-95. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/07-23.html">July 23, 1800</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">60 years, 308 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Rutledge (1713-1750) and Sarah (Hext) Rutledge; brother of Sarah Rutledge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mathews.html#149.13.23">John Mathews</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#638.85.87">Edward Rutledge</a>; married to Elizabeth Grimke (first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/grimke-grissom.html#879.11.70">John Faucheraud Grimké</a>); father of Martha Rutledge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kingston-kinner.html#163.47.16">Francis Kinloch</a>) and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#573.13.74">John Rutledge Jr.</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith8.html#272.20.23">Thomas Rhett Smith</a> and Sarah Ann Rutledge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#003.51.39">Alfred Huger</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#225.35.30">Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1829-1893)</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#165.35.77">Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1861-1925)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John Rutledge (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/CC-names.html">Richmond, California</a>; scrapped 1966) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000552">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409508">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=2078&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/john-rutledge/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Rutledge">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/John Rutledge (Supreme Court)">Ballotpedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/3672">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Library of Congress</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/387/40.68.jpg" width=70 height=112 border=0 alt="Robert Y. Hayne"></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Young Hayne (1791-1839) — also known as Robert Y. Hayne — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1791/11-10.html">November 10, 1791</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1814-18; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/spkr.html">Speaker of the South Carolina State House of Representatives</a>, 1818; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/attygn.html">South Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1818-22; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for South Carolina</a>, 1820; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1823-32; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1832-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1836-37. Slaveowner. Died in Asheville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/BU-died.html">Buncombe County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/09-24.html">September 24, 1839</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/47.html">47 years, 318 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#391.24.68">Charles Pinckney</a>; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#432.54.50">Arthur Peronneau Hayne</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000398">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405265">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/robert-young-hayne/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Y. Hayne">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: The South in the Building of the Nation (1909)</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Arnoldus Van der Horst (1748-1815) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1748/03-21.html">March 21, 1748</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1776-78, 1794, 1799-1800 (Christ Church 1776-78, 1794, St. Philip & St. Michael 1799-1800); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Christ Church, 1779-86, 1788-91; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1785-86, 1790-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1794-96. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Kiawah Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1815/01-29.html">January 29, 1815</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/66.html">66 years, 314 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Arnoldus Van der Horst and Elizabeth (Simons) Van der Horst; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/">1771</a> to Elizabeth Raven.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/arnoldus-vandershorst/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnoldus Vanderhorst">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28983159">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Arthur Peronneau Hayne (1788-1867) — also known as Arthur P. Hayne — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/03-12.html">March 12, 1788</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1830; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1858; appointed 1858. Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1867/01-07.html">January 7, 1867</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 301 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#387.40.68">Robert Young Hayne</a>; married to Elizabeth Laura Alston.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000397">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=412127">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur P. Hayne">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6914883">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis Kinloch (1755-1826) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1755/03-07.html">March 7, 1755</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1780; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1786-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1790. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1826/02-08.html">February 8, 1826</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 338 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/">1785</a> to Martha Rutledge (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#303.50.98">John Rutledge</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000223">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406382">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20936747">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Seabrook Bryan (1809-1905) — also known as George S. Bryan — Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/05-22.html">May 22, 1809</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usdjud.html">U.S. District Judge for South Carolina</a>, 1866-86; retired 1886. Died in Flat Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HE-died.html">Henderson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/09-28.html">September 28, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/96.html">96 years, 129 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Rebecca L. Dwight; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bryan.html#519.56.07">John P. Kennedy Bryan</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=298&cid=999&ctype=na&instate=na">federal judicial profile</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George Seabrook Bryan">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/George Seabrook Bryan">Ballotpedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28982866">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Dickinson Martin (1789-1833) — of South Carolina. Born in Edgefield District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ED-born.html">Edgefield County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1789/10-20.html">October 20, 1789</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Luke, 1816-17; Clerk of the South Carolina Senate, 1818-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 4th District, 1827-31; circuit judge in South Carolina, 1831-33. Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1833/11-17.html">November 17, 1833</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/44.html">44 years, 28 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Martin and Elizabeth (Terry) Martin; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/05-28.html">May 28, 1811</a>, to Harrietta Williamson; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/">1830</a> to Sally Maria Dorsey.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000202">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407222">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6914888">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Rouse (1756-1829) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Yorkshire, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1756/01-30.html">January 30, 1756</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1806-08, 1820-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1808-10; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1812-15. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/06-15.html">June 15, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/73.html">73 years, 136 days</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Eli Rouse and Martha (Asquith) Rouse.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Rouse">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/92221880">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James R. Pringle (1782-1840) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/index.html">1782</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1808-13; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1814-19; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/SCcc nCH">U.S. Collector of Customs</a>, 1819-20; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1830-31. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1840/07-11.html">July 11, 1840</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">about 58 years</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James R. Pringle">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry Workman Conner (1797-1861) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/ME-born.html">Mecklenburg County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1797/index.html">1797</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; president, South Carolina <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/railroading.html">Railroad</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-61; died in office 1861. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/infection.html">peritonitis</a>, in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1861/01-11.html">January 11, 1861</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">about 63 years</a>). Interment at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Married to Julianna Margaret Courtney; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/conner.html#270.60.52">James Conner</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33581194">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Other politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Pierce Butler (1744-1822) — of South Carolina. Born in County Carlow, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/EI-born.html">Ireland</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1744/07-11.html">July 11, 1744</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1778-89; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/adgen.html">Adjutant General of South Carolina</a>, 1779; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1789-96, 1802-04. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-died.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/02-15.html">February 15, 1822</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 219 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-buried.html#cms00050">Christ Church Burial Ground</a>, Philadelphia, Pa.; cenotaph at St. Michael's Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Sir Richard Butler and Henrietta (Percy) Butler; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/01-10.html">January 10, 1771</a>, to Mary Middleton (niece of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#670.69.30">Henry Middleton</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#526.58.04">Arthur Middleton</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS Pierce Butler (built 1942 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-names.html">Baltimore, Maryland</a>; torpedoed and lost 1942 in the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WW/IN-names.html">Indian Ocean</a>) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001186">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402128">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce Butler">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/874/000180334">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2852">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04011">St. Paul's Churchyard</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2256944&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Lowndes (1766-1843) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1766/01-22.html">January 22, 1766</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1792-1800; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1801-05. Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1843/07-08.html">July 8, 1843</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">77 years, 167 days</a>). Interment at St. Paul's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#267.92.16">Rawlins Lowndes</a> and Mary Anne (Cartwright) Lowndes; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#647.42.85">William Jones Lowndes</a>; married to Sarah Bond L'On; father of Harriett Lowndes (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aiken.html#486.73.74">William Aiken Jr.</a>); second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown2.html#133.27.94">Charles Pinckney Brown</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1232.html">VanRensselaer family</a> of Albany, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0128.html">DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=L000482">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=406970">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33584867">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Hans Campbell (1823-1901) — also known as William H. Campbell — of Greenville, Greenville District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/GR-lived.html">Greenville County</a>), S.C. Born in Fairfield District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/FA-born.html">Fairfield County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1823/10-22.html">October 22, 1823</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from Greenville, 1860-62. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1901/11-16.html">November 16, 1901</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 25 days</a>). Interment at St. Paul's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/61381883">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms01667">St. Philip's Churchyard</a> 146 Church St. Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.jamessmithnoelcollection.org/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/210/17.82.jpg" width=70 height=90 border=0 alt="John C. Calhoun"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Caldwell Calhoun (1782-1850) — also known as John C. Calhoun — of Pickens District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/PI-lived.html">Pickens County</a>), S.C. Born in Abbeville District (part now in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/MC-born.html">McCormick County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/03-18.html">March 18, 1782</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1808; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 6th District, 1811-17; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1817-25; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp.html">Vice President of the United States</a>, 1825-32; resigned 1832; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1832-43, 1845-50; died in office 1850; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1844-45. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> ancestry. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-died.html">Washington</a>, D.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1850/03-31.html">March 31, 1850</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 13 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html#cms00416">Congressional Cemetery</a>, Washington, D.C.; memorial monument at <a href="#cms07916">Marion Park</a>. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Patrick Calhoun and Martha (Caldwell) Calhoun; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1809/12-27.html">December 27, 1809</a>, to Floride Bonneau and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#902.99.62">Floride Calhoun</a> (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/colen-collingwood.html#989.03.32">John Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)</a>); father of Anna Maria Calhoun (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/clementson-cletus.html#133.51.85">Thomas Green Clemson</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#800.59.25">John Alfred Calhoun</a> and Martha Catherine Calhoun (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burruss-burtness.html#830.81.52">Armistead Burt</a>); great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/graves.html#541.07.78">John Temple Graves</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/colen-collingwood.html#989.03.32">John Ewing Colhoun (c.1749-1802)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#617.76.19">Joseph Calhoun</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillipson-picket.html#395.65.80">Andrew Pickens</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillipson-picket.html#144.57.37">Francis Wilkinson Pickens</a>; second cousin once removed of Sarah Ann Calhoun (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown1.html#485.68.41">Alexander Henry Brown</a>); second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/calhoun.html#429.98.13">William Francis Calhoun</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0250.html">Calhoun-Pickens family</a> of South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Calhoun counties in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/CA.html">Ala.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AR/CU.html">Ark.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/CA.html">Fla.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/GA/CJ.html">Ga.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/CN.html">Ill.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IA/CO.html">Iowa</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MI/CL.html">Mich.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MS/CU.html">Miss.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CA.html">S.C.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/TX/CU.html">Tex.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WV/CH.html">W.Va.</a> are named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The John C. Calhoun <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-buildings.html">State Office Building</a> (opened 1926), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-names.html">Columbia, South Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-water.html">Lake</a> Calhoun (now known by its Dakota name, Bde Maka Ska), in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MN/HE-names.html">Minneapolis, Minnesota</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.  — The World War II <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-ships.html">Liberty ship</a> SS John C. Calhoun (built 1941-42 at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/NH-names.html">Wilmington, North Carolina</a>; destroyed in cargo explosion at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PN-names.html">Finchhafen, Papua New Guinea</a>, 1944) was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Other politicians named for him: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/johnson5.html#585.81.84">John C. Johnson</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nexsen-nicholoff.html#763.09.32">John Calhoun Nicholls</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cook5.html#149.37.05">John Calhoun Cook</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sheppard.html#624.39.02">John C. Sheppard</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bell.html#825.29.95">John C. Bell</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayne-mcallen.html#520.96.43">John C. C. Mayo</a> — <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/phillips.html#834.82.33">John C. Phillips</a> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Coins and currency: His <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/coins-currency.html">portrait appeared</a> on Confederate States $1,000 notes (1861) and $100 notes (1862).</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Campaign slogan: "Liberty dearer than union."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000044">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=402205">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John C. Calhoun">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/902/000043773">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/2437">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about John C. Calhoun: Margaret L. Coit, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0872497755/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0872497755&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John C. Calhoun : American Portrait</a> — Clyde N. Wilson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0313280819/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0313280819&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John C. Calhoun</a> — Merrill D. Peterson, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195056868/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195056868&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">The Great Triumvirate: Webster, Clay, and Calhoun</a> — Warren Brown, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0791017273/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0791017273&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">John C. Calhoun</a> (for young readers)</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: James Smith Noel Collection, Louisiana State University in Shreveport</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Edward Rutledge (1749-1800) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Christ Church Parish, Charleston District (now part of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1749/11-23.html">November 23, 1749</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; law partner of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#959.68.88">Charles Cotesworth Pinckney</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1774-76; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">signer, Declaration of Independence</a>, 1776; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1787-96; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a>, 1788; candidate for Presidential Elector for South Carolina; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1796-98; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1798-1800; died in office 1800. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scotch-irish.html">Scotch-Irish</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/english.html">English</a> ancestry. Died, from <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/stroke.html">apoplexy</a>, in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/01-23.html">January 23, 1800</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 61 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard; memorial monument at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/DC/wa-buried.html# ">Constitution Gardens</a>, Washington, D.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Rutledge (1713-1750) and Sarah (Hext) Rutledge; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#303.50.98">John Rutledge (1739-1800)</a> and Sarah Rutledge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mathews.html#149.13.23">John Mathews</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1774/03-01.html">March 1, 1774</a>, to Henrietta Middleton (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#670.69.30">Henry Middleton (1717-1784)</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#526.58.04">Arthur Middleton</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#064.87.59">Henry Middleton (1770-1846)</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/10-28.html">October 28, 1792</a>, to Mary (Shubrick) Eveleigh (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#934.25.05">Thomas Shubrick</a>; widow of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/evar-everel.html#605.89.41">Nicholas Eveleigh</a>); uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#573.13.74">John Rutledge Jr.</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith8.html#272.20.23">Thomas Rhett Smith</a> and Sarah Ann Rutledge (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#003.51.39">Alfred Huger</a>); granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#225.35.30">Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1829-1893)</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#165.35.77">Benjamin Huger Rutledge (1861-1925)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000551">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409507">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/edward-rutledge/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward Rutledge">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/920">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1750/10-23.html">October 23, 1750</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; major in Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1776-87, 1789-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1787-89; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/UK-diplomats.html ">Great Britain</a>, 1792-96; received 59 electoral votes, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/pres-vp-1796.html">1796</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1797-1801 (at-large 1797-99, 1st District 1799-1801); general in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S. Special Diplomatic Agent to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/ofc/diplo.html ">Florida</a>, 1812-14. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/11-02.html">November 2, 1828</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 10 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Pinckney (1699-1758) and Elizabet (Lucas) Pinckney; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#959.68.88">Charles Cotesworth Pinckney</a>; father of Elizabeth Brewton Pinckney (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#647.42.85">William Jones Lowndes</a>); first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#760.63.11">Charles Pinckney (1732-1782)</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#391.24.68">Charles Pinckney (1757-1824)</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#726.31.99">Henry Laurens Pinckney</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000357">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408754">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/thomas-pinckney/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/pinckney-thomas ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/080/000049930">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6664724">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Gadsden (1788-1858) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/05-15.html">May 15, 1788</a>. Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; member of Florida state legislature, 1840; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/MX-diplomats.html ">Mexico</a>, 1853-56. Negotiated the treaty which led to the Gadsden Purchase, which added 30,000 square miles to the U.S. (parts of southern Arizona and New Mexico). Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1858/12-25.html">December 25, 1858</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/70.html">70 years, 224 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Philip Gadsden and Catherine (Edwards) Gadsden; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#927.06.29">John Gadsden</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#329.76.23">Christopher Gadsden</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#062.93.65">Philip Henry Gadsden</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#659.94.49">Oscar Hampton Ballard</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patty-payn.html#132.46.95">Harry R. Pauley</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0288.html">Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family</a> of West Virginia and South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/GA.html">Gadsden County, Fla.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">city</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/ET-names.html">Gadsden, Alabama</a>, was <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Gadsden">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/gadsden-james ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/36835622">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Pinckney (1757-1824) — of Christ Church Parish (now Mt. Pleasant), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1757/10-26.html">October 26, 1757</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1785-87; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Christ Church, 1786-89, 1790-91, 1792-96, 1798; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/founders.html">member, U.S. Constitutional Convention</a>, 1787; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1789-92, 1796-98, 1806-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1798-1801; U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SP-diplomats.html ">Spain</a>, 1801-04; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 1st District, 1819-21. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Slaveowner. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1824/10-29.html">October 29, 1824</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">67 years, 3 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#760.63.11">Charles Pinckney (1732-1782)</a> and Frances (Brewton) Pinckney; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1788/04-27.html">April 27, 1788</a>, to Mary Eleanor Laurens (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/latno-lavorato.html#458.03.77">Henry Laurens</a>); father-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hayford-haynsworth.html#387.40.68">Robert Young Hayne</a>; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#726.31.99">Henry Laurens Pinckney</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#959.68.88">Charles Cotesworth Pinckney</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#501.52.65">Thomas Pinckney</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000354">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408751">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/charles-pinckney/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles Pinckney (governor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/pinckney-charles ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/083/000049933">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/4434">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Loughton Smith (1758-1812) — also known as William Smith — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1758/index.html">1758</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1784-88, 1808; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1789-97 (at-large 1789-93, 1st District 1793-97, at-large 1797); U.S. Minister to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/PT-diplomats.html ">Portugal</a>, 1797-1801. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1812/12-19.html">December 19, 1812</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/54.html">about 54 years</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000633">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=410107">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/smith-william-loughton ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/66755694">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel Huger (1742-1799) — of South Carolina. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BE-born.html">Berkeley County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1742/02-20.html">February 20, 1742</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1778-80; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1786-88; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> at-large, 1789-93. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> ancestry. Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/07-06.html">July 6, 1799</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 136 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#805.72.33">John Huger</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1772/11-19.html">November 19, 1772</a>, to Sabina Elliott; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#668.97.80">Daniel Elliott Huger</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#086.64.11">Benjamin Huger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#003.51.39">Alfred Huger</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#496.84.45">John Middleton Huger</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#630.25.99">Benjamin Frost Huger</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith2.html#818.20.40">Daniel Elliott Huger Smith</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#125.55.75">Huger Sinkler (1868-1923)</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#620.65.07">Huger Sinkler (1908-1987)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000916">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=405761">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel Huger">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8359969">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William McGillivray Morrison (1903-1960) — also known as William McG. Morrison — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-born.html">Richland County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/01-08.html">January 8, 1903</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">Mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1947-59; defeated, 1959; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/SC.html">1952</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1956/SC.html">1956</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/scottish.html">Scottish</a> ancestry. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1960/01-01.html">January 1, 1960</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 358 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry Toomer Morrison and Sadie (McGillivray) Morrison; married to Caroline Sams.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William McG. Morrison">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/55476807">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Isaac Motte (1738-1795) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1738/12-08.html">December 8, 1738</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1779, 1783-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1780; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1781-82. Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1795/05-08.html">May 8, 1795</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/56.html">56 years, 151 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Jacob Motte and Elizabeth (Martin) Motte; brother of Sarah Katherine Motte (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/shorten-shuja.html#934.25.05">Thomas Shubrick</a>) and Charlotte Motte (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#805.72.33">John Huger</a>); married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1763/12-15.html">December 15, 1763</a>, to Ann Loughton Smith; married to Kaherine Deas and Mary Broughton; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#021.74.00">William Drayton</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001043">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408010">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/19421684">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Christopher Gadsden (1723-1805) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1723/02-16.html">February 16, 1723</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1774-76; general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1778-80. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1805/09-15.html">September 15, 1805</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 211 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Gadsden and Elizabeth (Gasciogne) Gadsden; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1759/12-29.html">December 29, 1759</a>, to Mary Hasell; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#927.06.29">John Gadsden</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#097.51.71">James Gadsden</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#062.93.65">Philip Henry Gadsden</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#659.94.49">Oscar Hampton Ballard</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patty-payn.html#132.46.95">Harry R. Pauley</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0288.html">Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family</a> of West Virginia and South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Personal motto: "Don't tread on me."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000002">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404379">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6664742">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Rawlins Lowndes (1721-1800) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/SC-born.html">St. Christopher</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1721/01-06.html">January 6, 1721</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1776-78, 1787-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/pres.html">President of South Carolina</a>, 1778-79; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1788-89. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/08-24.html">August 24, 1800</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 230 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Charles Lowndes and Ruth (Rawlins) Lowndes; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1748/">1748</a> to Amarinthia Elliott; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1751/">1751</a> to Mary Cartwright; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1773/">1773</a> to Sarah Jones; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#902.42.65">Thomas Lowndes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#647.42.85">William Jones Lowndes</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown2.html#133.27.94">Charles Pinckney Brown</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1232.html">VanRensselaer family</a> of Albany, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0128.html">DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/rawlins-lowndes/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawlins Lowndes">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/38520477">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Palmer Gaillard Jr. (1920-2006) — also known as J. Palmer Gaillard, Jr. — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/04-20.html">April 20, 1920</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lumber.html">lumber business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1959-75. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/elks.html">Elks</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/rotary.html">Rotary</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/am-legion.html">American Legion</a>. Killed in an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/automobile.html">automobile accident</a>, in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2006/07-29.html">July 29, 2006</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">86 years, 100 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Palmer Gaillard and Eleanor (Lucas) Gaillard; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1944/07-15.html">July 15, 1944</a>, to Lucy Foster; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#065.97.31">Peter Charles Gaillard</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snowbarger-snowfield.html#143.12.22">Peter Gaillard Snowden</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#579.80.43">Franklin Gaillard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#181.43.81">Henry Augustus Gaillard</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#384.71.75">John Gaillard</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hunt.html#669.18.10">Theodore Gaillard Hunt</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bondurant-boog.html#142.11.90">Peter Porcher Bonneau</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stonebraker-stoughton.html#337.68.87">Thomas Porcher Stoney</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10236.html">Gaillard family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J. Palmer Gaillard Jr.">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/15065671">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Lewis Gervais (1741-1798) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Hanover, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/GR-born.html">Germany</a> of French Huguenot parents, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1741/index.html">1741</a>. Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Ninety-Six District, 1779-86; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ccdel.html">Delegate to Continental Congress from South Carolina</a>, 1782-83; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1785, 1788. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French</a> ancestry. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/08-18.html">August 18, 1798</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">about 57 years</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=G000142">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=404511">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alexander Moultrie (1750-1807) — Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1750/07-02.html">July 2, 1750</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/attygn.html">South Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1776-92; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">impeached</a> for <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/embezzlement.html">embezzling</a> state money into the Yazoo Land Company, and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">resigned</a>. Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., August, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1807/index.html">1807</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 0 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Moultrie and Elizabeth (Wilkins) Moultrie; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moultrie-moynihan.html#836.63.57">William Moultrie</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1772/05-24.html">May 24, 1772</a>, to Catherine Judith Lennox.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/139211895">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Gadsden (1787-1831) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1787/03-04.html">March 4, 1787</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1819; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usatty.html">U.S. Attorney for South Carolina</a>, 1820-31; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1827-29. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1831/01-24.html">January 24, 1831</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/43.html">43 years, 326 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Philip Gadsden and Catherine (Edwards) Gadsden; brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#097.51.71">James Gadsden</a>; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1818/04-29.html">April 29, 1818</a>, to Margaret Ann Edwards; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#329.76.23">Christopher Gadsden</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gabaldon-gafney.html#062.93.65">Philip Henry Gadsden</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/ballam-bancroft.html#659.94.49">Oscar Hampton Ballard</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/patty-payn.html#132.46.95">Harry R. Pauley</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0288.html">Ballard-Gadsden-Randolph family</a> of West Virginia and South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Gadsden">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Roper (1760-1829) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1760/05-20.html">May 20, 1760</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1796-1802; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1799-1801. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/04-15.html">April 15, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 330 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Roper and Grace (Hext) Roper; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1781/">1781</a> to Lydia Harvey.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Roper (mayor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/35276588">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Johnson (1776-1862) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Mt. Pleasant, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/index.html">1776</a>. Whig. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/drugs.html">druggist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1825-27. Died in Pineville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BE-died.html">Berkeley County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1862/10-06.html">October 6, 1862</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/86.html">about 86 years</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph Johnson (South Carolina)">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Winstanley (1755-1832) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1755/index.html">1755</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">Intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1804-05. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1832/11-04.html">November 4, 1832</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/77.html">about 77 years</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas Winstanley (mayor)">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/36235641">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Shubrick (1710-1779) — Born in Stepney, London, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1710/08-17.html">August 17, 1710</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/nautical.html">Sea captain</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/insurance.html">insurance business</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/lgcn.html">South Carolina Legislative Council</a>, 1776-78. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Anglican</a>. Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1779/08-14.html">August 14, 1779</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/68.html">68 years, 362 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Richard Shubrick and Jane Shubrick; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1746/05-08.html">May 8, 1746</a>, to Sarah Katherine Motte (sister-in-law of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#805.72.33">John Huger</a>; sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mottashed-moultin.html#963.10.30">Isaac Motte</a>; aunt of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/draves-drexler.html#021.74.00">William Drayton</a>); father of Mary Shubrick (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/evar-everel.html#605.89.41">Nicholas Eveleigh</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/rutherfurd-ryall.html#638.85.87">Edward Rutledge</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/155018693">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Pinckney (1732-1782) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charles Town (now Charleston), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1732/03-07.html">March 7, 1732</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1779-80. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Anglican</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/09-22.html">September 22, 1782</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 199 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard; cenotaph at <a href="# ">Christ Church Cemetery</a>, Mt. Pleasant, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Pinckney and Ruth (Brewton) Pinckney; married to Frances Brewton; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#391.24.68">Charles Pinckney (1757-1824)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#726.31.99">Henry Laurens Pinckney</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#959.68.88">Charles Cotesworth Pinckney</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#501.52.65">Thomas Pinckney</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel Charles Pinckney">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12549667">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Julius Pringle Smith (1816-1894) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1816/10-15.html">October 15, 1816</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-62. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1894/11-25.html">November 25, 1894</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 41 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Robert Mason Smith and Elizabeth Mary (Pringle) Smith; brother of Susan Pringle Smith (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/middleton.html#405.03.32">Williams Middleton</a>); married to Elizabeth Middleton.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0207.html">Shippen-Middleton family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12445553">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Huger Sinkler (1908-1987) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1908/01-13.html">January 13, 1908</a>. Democrat. Alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/SC.html">1936</a>. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1987/01-26.html">January 26, 1987</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/79.html">79 years, 13 days</a>). Interment at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/simspon-sizemore.html#125.55.75">Huger Sinkler (1868-1923)</a> and Anna Wilkinson (Marshall) Sinkler; married to Alida Dana Canfield; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#003.51.39">Alfred Huger</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#805.72.33">John Huger</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#970.04.67">Daniel Huger</a>; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/manners-manning.html#138.54.88">Richard Irvine Manning</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#630.25.99">Benjamin Frost Huger</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#086.64.11">Benjamin Huger</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#668.97.80">Daniel Elliott Huger</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudsonriver-hughan.html#496.84.45">John Middleton Huger</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/smith2.html#818.20.40">Daniel Elliott Huger Smith</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0164.html">Richardson-Manning family</a> of South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/28014118">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Other politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Johnson (1771-1834) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1771/12-27.html">December 27, 1771</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1787-90, 1794-99; common pleas court judge in South Carolina, 1799-1800; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/us-supreme-ct.html">Associate Justice of U.S. Supreme Court</a>, 1804-34. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/08-04.html">August 4, 1834</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 220 days</a>). His remains were apparently <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/never-found.html">lost in transit</a>. Cenotaph at St. Philip's Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/5781">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Second Presbyterian Churchyard</a> 342 Meeting Street Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina Founded 1809 See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2147953&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> James Adger Smyth (1837-1920) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1837/06-08.html">June 8, 1837</a>. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton broker</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1896-1903. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1920/04-25.html">April 25, 1920</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/82.html">82 years, 322 days</a>). Interment at Second Presbyterian Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Margaret Milligan (Adger) Smyth and Thomas Smyth; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1860/">1860</a> to Ann Ransom 'Annie' Briggs; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1903/">1903</a> to Ella Calvert Campbell.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Adger Smyth">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20737775">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/821/43.82.jpg" width=70 height=112 border=0 alt="T. Allen Legare, Jr."></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Thomas Allen Legaré Jr. (1915-2010) — also known as T. Allen Legaré, Jr. — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C.; Wadmalaw Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1915/07-22.html">July 22, 1915</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; served in the U.S. Army during World War II; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1947-48, 1951-53; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from Charleston County, 1953-66. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/presbyterian.html">Presbyterian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/omicron-delta-kappa.html">Omicron Delta Kappa</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/lions.html">Lions</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2010/06-11.html">June 11, 2010</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/94.html">94 years, 324 days</a>). Interment at Second Presbyterian Churchyard. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Thomas Allen Legare and Lydia Murray 'Lilly' (Mikell) Legare; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1943/04-10.html">April 10, 1943</a>, to Virginia Irene Green; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#205.63.05">George Swinton Legaré</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#984.89.19">Hugh Swinton Legaré</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#102.72.44">William Storen Legaré</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#201.25.56">George Washington Seabrook</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#962.84.61">Ephraim Mikell Seabrook</a>; third cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#199.66.89">Marion Wainwright Seabrook</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/21489.html">Seabrook-Legare family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/53618945">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: South Carolina Legislative Manual 1964</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Unitarian Church Cemetery</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Francis James Porcher (1821-1872) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1821/05-03.html">May 3, 1821</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-62. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1872/02-20.html">February 20, 1872</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 293 days</a>). Interment at Unitarian Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Francis Yonge Porcher and Sarah Julia (Pelot) Porcher; married to Abby Louisa Gilmore; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miles.html#516.84.16">William Porcher Miles</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#065.97.31">Peter Charles Gaillard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bondurant-boog.html#142.11.90">Peter Porcher Bonneau</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snowbarger-snowfield.html#143.12.22">Peter Gaillard Snowden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#579.80.43">Franklin Gaillard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#181.43.81">Henry Augustus Gaillard</a>; fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stonebraker-stoughton.html#337.68.87">Thomas Porcher Stoney</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10236.html">Gaillard family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/26049982">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms02020">Unity Friendship Cemetery</a> Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Alonzo Jacob Ransier (1834-1882) — also known as A. J. Ransier — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1834/01-03.html">January 3, 1834</a>. Republican. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cncn5.html">Delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention</a> from Charleston County, 1868; candidate for Presidential Elector for South Carolina; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1868-70; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1871-72; delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/R/1872/SC.html">1872</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a> 2nd District, 1873-75. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/african.html">African</a> ancestry. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1882/08-17.html">August 17, 1882</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/48.html">48 years, 226 days</a>). Interment at Unity Friendship Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000060">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409040">Govtrack.us page</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms04490">Gunbluff Plantation Cemetery</a> Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina See also <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2308181&">Findagrave page</a> for this location. <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook (1792-1855) — of South Carolina. Born in Edisto Island, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/06-30.html">June 30, 1792</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Planter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/writing.html">author</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1814-25; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1826-34; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1834-36; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1848-50. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died in Beaufort, Beaufort District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-died.html">Beaufort County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1855/04-16.html">April 16, 1855</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 290 days</a>). Interment at Gunbluff Plantation Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Whitmarsh Benjamin Seabrook and Elizabeth Margaret (Meggett) Seabrook; married to Margaret Wilkinson Hamilton; first cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#199.66.89">Marion Wainwright Seabrook</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#201.25.56">George Washington Seabrook</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#962.84.61">Ephraim Mikell Seabrook</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/21489.html">Seabrook-Legare family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/whitemarsh-benjamin-seabrook/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/6915529">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island Cemetery</a> Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Ferras Townsend (1799-1881) — also known as John Townsend — of Edisto Island, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1799/10-23.html">October 23, 1799</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-62. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1881/02-03.html">February 3, 1881</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/81.html">81 years, 103 days</a>). Interment at Presbyterian Church on Edisto Island Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/185882526">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery</a> Edisto Island, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr. (1924-2016) — also known as Burnet R. Maybank — of Greenville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/GR-lived.html">Greenville County</a>, S.C.; Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1924/05-02.html">May 2, 1924</a>. Served in the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1953-58; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1959-61. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2016/10-25.html">October 25, 2016</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 176 days</a>). Interment at Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a> and Elizabeth DeRossett (Myers) Maybank; married to Marion Mitchell; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#819.54.94">Robert Barnwell Rhett</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aiken.html#486.73.74">William Aiken Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foy-franchot.html#897.08.73">John Edward Frampton</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#966.10.05">Andrew William Burnet</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#902.42.65">Thomas Lowndes</a>; third great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#762.54.29">Henry William de Saussure</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#647.42.85">William Jones Lowndes</a>; fourth great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#267.92.16">Rawlins Lowndes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#547.83.25">Daniel DeSaussure</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#467.25.67">William Ford DeSaussure</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#774.47.67">Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown2.html#133.27.94">Charles Pinckney Brown</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1232.html">VanRensselaer family</a> of Albany, New York; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0128.html">DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/107131822">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Joseph Evans Jenkins (1793-1874) — of Edisto Island, Colleton District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Edisto Island, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1793/index.html">1793</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1818-19, 1832-33; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1834-38; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Paul's, 1860-62. Died in Edisto Island, Colleton County (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1874/03-06.html">March 6, 1874</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/80.html">about 80 years</a>). Interment at Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Elizabeth (Evans) Jenkins and Joseph Jenkins; married to Ann Jenkins 'Nancy' Fripp.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/33277261">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Johns Island Presbyterian Church Cemetery</a> Johns Island, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> George Washington Seabrook (1808-1866) — of Colleton District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CO-lived.html">Colleton County</a>), S.C. Born in Edisto Island, Colleton District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1808/11-14.html">November 14, 1808</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. John's, Colleton, 1860-62. Died in Orangeburg, Orangeburg District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/OR-died.html">Orangeburg County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1866/06-22.html">June 22, 1866</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">57 years, 220 days</a>). Interment at Johns Island Presbyterian Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Presumably named for: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/washington.html#466.36.08">George Washington</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Seabrook and Mary Ann (Mikell) Seabrook; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1830/01-12.html">January 12, 1830</a>, to Martha Abigail Clark; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#962.84.61">Ephraim Mikell Seabrook</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#199.66.89">Marion Wainwright Seabrook</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/leech-lehlbach.html#821.43.82">Thomas Allen Legaré Jr.</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/scull-searls.html#186.95.10">Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/21489.html">Seabrook-Legare family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/34482083">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Christ Church Cemetery</a> Mt. Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Peter Porcher Bonneau (1814-1871) — Born in Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1814/index.html">1814</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/physician.html">Physician</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from Christ Church, 1860-62. Died in New York, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/NY-died.html">New York County</a>, N.Y., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1871/10-01.html">October 1, 1871</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/57.html">about 57 years</a>). Interment at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Arnoldus Bonneau and Martha (Porcher) Bonneau; married to Harriet Hampton Maybank; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#065.97.31">Peter Charles Gaillard</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/snowbarger-snowfield.html#143.12.22">Peter Gaillard Snowden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#579.80.43">Franklin Gaillard</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#181.43.81">Henry Augustus Gaillard</a>; second cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/stonebraker-stoughton.html#337.68.87">Thomas Porcher Stoney</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gagliardi-gainer.html#191.53.28">John Palmer Gaillard Jr.</a>; fourth cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/popiel-porteous.html#893.73.99">Francis James Porcher</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/miles.html#516.84.16">William Porcher Miles</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10236.html">Gaillard family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/133307358">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2>Other politicians who have (or had) monuments here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Charles Pinckney (1732-1782) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Charles Town (now Charleston), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1732/03-07.html">March 7, 1732</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">planter</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1779-80. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Anglican</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1782/09-22.html">September 22, 1782</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/50.html">50 years, 199 days</a>). Interment at <a href="#cms01667">St. Philip's Churchyard</a>, Charleston, S.C.; cenotaph at Christ Church Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of William Pinckney and Ruth (Brewton) Pinckney; married to Frances Brewton; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#391.24.68">Charles Pinckney (1757-1824)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#726.31.99">Henry Laurens Pinckney</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#959.68.88">Charles Cotesworth Pinckney</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pinckney.html#501.52.65">Thomas Pinckney</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0226.html">Pinckney-Middleton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0131.html">Middleton-Huger-Rutledge-Drayton family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel Charles Pinckney">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/12549667">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Venning Cemetery</a> Mt. Pleasant, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> william Pinkney Shingler (1827-1869) — Born <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/11-11.html">November 11, 1827</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from Christ Church, 1860-62; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1869/09-14.html">September 14, 1869</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/41.html">41 years, 307 days</a>). Interment at Venning Cemetery. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/9464166">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name=" ">Carolina Memorial Park</a> North Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robin Chandler Duke (1923-2016) — also known as Grace Esther Tippett; Robin Chandler — of New York. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MD/ba-born.html">Baltimore</a>, Md., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/10-13.html">October 13, 1923</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/entertainment.html">Model</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/newspaper.html">journalist</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/finance.html">stockbroker</a>; U.S. Ambassador to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/NO-diplomats.html ">Norway</a>, 2000-01. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/female.html">Female</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/cfr.html">Council on Foreign Relations</a>. Died in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/2016/02-06.html">February 6, 2016</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/92.html">92 years, 116 days</a>). <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/plcrem.html">Cremated</a>; ashes interred at Carolina Memorial Park. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Daughter of Richard Edgar Tippett and Esther (Chandler) Tippett; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1962/">1962</a> to <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/duke.html#342.09.19">Angier Biddle Duke</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1946/">1946</a> to Jeffrey Lynn.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0039.html">Biddle-Randolph family</a> of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0012.html">Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family</a> of Virginia; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-0646.html">Umstead-Grimmet-Byrd family</a> of Durham, North Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/duke-robin-chandler ?">U.S. State Dept career summary</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/157911107">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <hr> <a name="cms06063">Fort Moultrie National Monument</a> Sullivan's Island, Charleston County, South Carolina <table width=100% align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td colspan=2>Politicians buried here:</td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Moultrie (1730-1805) — of South Carolina. Born in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1730/11-23.html">November 23, 1730</a>. General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1783-84; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ltgov.html">Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1784; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1785-87, 1792-94; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a>, 1787-92. Slaveowner. 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Original interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/DO-buried.html# ">Windsor Hill Plantation</a>, North Charleston, S.C.; reinterment in 1977 at Fort Moultrie National Monument; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BE-buried.html#cms02501">St. James Goose Creek Episcopal Churchyard</a>, Goose Creek, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of John Moultrie and Lucretia (Cooper) Moultrie; half-brother of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/moultrie-moynihan.html#734.65.08">Alexander Moultrie</a>; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1749/">1749</a> to Elizabeth Damaris de St. Julien.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/IL/MT.html">Moultrie County, Ill.</a> is named for him.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"><a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-forts.html">Fort</a> Moultrie, in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-names.html">Sullivan's Island, South Carolina</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/william-moultrie/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William Moultrie">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/23285">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </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"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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