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Senate Years of Service: 1857-1860 Party: Democrat
HAMMOND, James Henry, (son-in-law of Wade Hampton [1752-1835], uncle of Wade Hampton
[1818-1902]),
a Representative and a Senator from South Carolina; born in Newberry
District, S.C., November 15, 1807; graduated from the South Carolina College
(now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1825; taught school and
wrote for a newspaper; studied law, admitted to the bar in 1828 and practiced
in Columbia; established a newspaper to support nullification; planter; elected
as a Nullifier to the Twenty-fourth Congress in 1834 and served from March 4,
1835, until February 26, 1836, when he resigned because of ill health; spent
two years in Europe; returned to South Carolina and engaged in agricultural
pursuits; Governor of South Carolina 1842-1844; elected as a Democrat to the
United States Senate in 1857 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Andrew P. Butler and served from December 7, 1857, to November 11, 1860, when
he withdrew; died at Redcliffe, Beach Island, S.C., November 13, 1864.
Bibliography American National Biography;
Dictionary of American Biography; Faust, Drew Gilpin.
James Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
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