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Senate Years of Service: 1879-1891 Party: Democrat
HAMPTON, Wade, (grandson of Wade Hampton [1752-1835]),
a Senator from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., March 28,
1818; received private instruction, graduated from the South Carolina College
(now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1836; studied law but
never practiced; planter; member, State house of representatives 1852-1856;
member, State senate 1858-1861; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil
War, raising and commanding Hamptons Legion; three times wounded; made
brigadier general in 1862, major general in 1863, and lieutenant general in
1865; Governor of South Carolina 1876-1879; elected in 1878 as a Democrat to
the United States Senate; reelected in 1884 and served from March 4, 1879,
until March 3, 1891; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; United States
railroad commissioner 1893-1897; died in Columbia, S.C., April 11, 1902;
interment in Trinity Cathedral Churchyard.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; Wellman,
Manly. Giant in Gray: A Biography of Wade Hampton of South
Carolina. New York: Scribners Sons, 1949; Wittenberg, Eric J. Giant
in Gray: Wade Hampton at Fayetteville.
North & South 6 (2003): 82-86; Andrew, Rod.
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer. Chapel
Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.
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