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Laurence Massillon Keitt (1824-1864) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Orangeburg
County, S.C., October
4, 1824.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1848; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 3rd District, 1853-55,
1855-56, 1856-60; censured
by the House in 1856 for aiding Rep. Preston
S. Brooks in his caning
attack on Sen. Charles
Sumner; resigned; re-elected to his seat within a month; Delegate
from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Mortally
wounded at the battle of Cold Harbor, and died the next day, near
Richmond (unknown
county), Va., June 4,
1864 (age 39 years, 244
days).
Interment in private or family graveyard.
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Preston Smith Brooks (1819-1857) —
also known as Preston S. Brooks —
of South Carolina.
Born in Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., August 5,
1819.
Son of Whitefield Brooks and Mary P. (Carroll) Brooks.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1844; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1853-56,
1856-57; died in office 1857.
Suffered a hip wound in a duel
with Louis
T. Wigfall, 1839, and could walk only with
a cane for the rest of his life. In May, 1856, furious over an
anti-slavery speech, he went to the Senate and beat
Senator Charles
Sumner with a cane, causing severe
injuries; an attempt to expel him
from Congress failed for lack of the necessary two-thirds vote, but
he resigned;
re-elected to his own vacancy.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1857 (age 37 years, 175
days).
Interment at Willow
Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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James Chesnut, Jr. (1815-1885) —
of South Carolina.
Born near Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., January
18, 1815.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1842; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1854; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1858-60; delegate
to South Carolina secession convention, 1861; Delegate
from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,
1861-62; candidate for Senator
from South Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1861; general in
the Confederate Army during the Civil War; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1868.
When the Civil War began, he left Washington but did not resign his
seat in the Senate; one of ten Southern
senators expelled
in absentia on July 11, 1861.
Died in Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., February
1, 1885 (age 70 years, 14
days).
Interment at Knights
Hill Cemetery, Camden, S.C.
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George Alfred Trenholm (1807-1876) —
also known as George A. Trenholm —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
25, 1807.
Democrat. Banker;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1852-56, 1874; Confederate
Secretary of the Treasury, 1864-65.
Arrested
by Union
forces in 1865, and imprisoned
at Fort Pulaski, Tennessee, until October.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., December
9, 1876 (age 69 years, 288
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Near Charleston, Charleston County, S.C.
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Andrew Gordon Magrath (1813-1893) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
8, 1813.
Secretary
of state of South Carolina, 1860-62; Governor of
South Carolina, 1864-65.
Ousted
as Governor by Union
authorities in 1865 and imprisoned.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., April 9,
1893 (age 80 years, 60
days).
Interment at Magnolia
Cemetery, Near Charleston, Charleston County, S.C.
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Eugene S. Blease (born c.1877) —
of Newberry, Newberry
County, S.C.
Born about 1877.
Democrat. Justice of
South Carolina state supreme court, 1927-31; chief
justice of South Carolina state supreme court, 1931-34; resigned
1934; candidate in primary for U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1942; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1944.
On September 8, 1905, he shot
and killed his brother-in-law, Joe Ben Coleman, in Saluda, S.C.;
charged
with murder,
he pleaded self-defense and was found not guilty.
Burial
location unknown.
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E. J. Dennis (c.1876-1930) —
of Berkeley
County, S.C.
Born about 1876.
Member of South
Carolina state senate, 1910-30; died in office 1930.
Tried
and acquitted in 1929 for conspiracy to violate the alcohol
prohibition law.
Shot
and mortally
wounded by W. L. Thornley, on the street in front of the post
office in Moncks Corner, S.C., and died the next day in a hospital
at Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., July 25,
1930 (age about 54
years).
Burial
location unknown.
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Harry Shuler Dent (1930-2007) —
also known as Harry S. Dent —
of Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.
Born in St. Matthews, Calhoun
County, S.C., February
21, 1930.
Son of Hampton N. Dent and Sallie P. Dent.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict; South Carolina
Republican state chair, 1965-68; special counsel and political
advisor to President Richard
M. Nixon; pleaded
guilty in 1974 to a federal campaign
finance violation, and sentenced
to one month probation.
Baptist.
Member, Phi
Alpha Delta; Pi
Kappa Alpha.
Died, from complications of Alzheimer's
disease, in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., September
28, 2007 (age 77 years, 219
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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John Wilson Jenrette, Jr. (b. 1936) —
also known as John W. Jenrette, Jr. —
of South Carolina.
Born in South Carolina, May 19,
1936.
Democrat. Member of South Carolina state legislature; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 6th District, 1975-80.
Implicated
in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab
businessmen offered bribes
to political figures; indicted
and convicted
on bribery
conspiracy charges
in 1980 and sentenced
to prison.
Still living as of 1998.
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Charles Tyrone Courtney (b. 1952) —
also known as Ty Courtney —
of Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C.
Born in Spartanburg, Spartanburg
County, S.C., January
4, 1952.
Lawyer;
municipal judge in South Carolina, 1981-82; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1991-2000.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Jaycees;
Lions.
Tried
and convicted
in June 2000 on federal charges
of bank
fraud, mail fraud, and making false
statements in a loan application.
Still living as of 2000.
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Marshall Clement Sanford, Jr. (b. 1960) —
also known as Mark Sanford —
of South Carolina.
Born in Fort Lauderdale, Broward
County, Fla., March 28,
1960.
Republican. U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 1st District, 1995-2001; Governor of
South Carolina, 2003-.
In June 2009, he disappeared from the state capital and was
unavailable for several days; his office said he was "hiking the
Appalachian Trail." In truth, he had gone to Argentina for an extramarital
affair; the scandal
destroyed his chances for national office.
Still living as of 2003.
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Johnnie M. Smith (born c.1934) —
of Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C.; Simpsonville, Greenville
County, S.C.
Born about 1934.
Republican. Bishop;
alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from South
Carolina, 1988.
African
ancestry.
Arrested
in 2004 and charged
with sexually
assaulting a 12-year-old girl in 1973.
Still living as of 2004.
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Addison Graves Wilson (b. 1947) —
also known as Joe Wilson —
of West Columbia, Lexington
County, S.C.; Springdale, Lexington
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., July 31,
1947.
Republican. Staff for U.S. Sen. Strom
Thurmond, and for U.S. Rep. Floyd
Spence; lawyer;
delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1972,
2008;
member of South
Carolina state senate, 1984-2001; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 2nd District, 2001-; rebuked
by the House of Representatives in September, 2009, for a breach of
decorum; he had shouted
"You Lie!" during an address by President Barack
Obama.
Presbyterian.
Still living as of 2009.
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