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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hammond, James Henry 1807- (search)

Hammond, James Henry 1807- Statesman; born in Newberry, S. C., Nov. 15, 1807; graduated at South Carolina College in 1825; elected to Congress in 1835; governor of the State in 1842, and United States Senator in 1857. He was a supporter of Calhoun, and an ardent advocate of nullification. When South Carolina seceded he resigned his seat in the United States Senate, and retired to his plantation in Beech Island, where he died. Nov. 13, 1864.

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of South Carolina, (search)

t1820 John L. Wilson1822 Richard J. Manning1824 John Taylor1826 Stephen D. Miller1828 James Hamilton1830 Robert Y. Hayne1832 George McDuflie1834 Pierce M. Butler1836 Patrick Noble1838 B. K. Henneganacting1840 J. P. Richardson1840 James H. Hammond1842 William Aiken1844 David Johnson1846 W. B. Seabrook1848 John H. Means1850 John L. Manning1852 James H. Adams1854 R. F. W. Alston1856 William H. Gist1858 Francis W. Pickens1860 M. L. Bonham1862 A. G. MagrathinauguratedDec. 19, 11850 Andrew P. Butler29th to 35th1846 to 1857 Franklin H. Elmore31st1850 Robert W. Barnwell31st1850 R. Barnwell Rhett31st to 32d1851 to 1852 William F. De Saussure32d1852 Josiah J. Evans33d to 35th1853 to 1858 Arthur P. Hayne35th1858 James H. Hammond35th to 36th1857 to 1860 James Chestnut35th to 36th1859 to 1860 37th, 38th, 39th Congresses vacant. Thomas J. Robertson40th to 45th1868 to 1877 Frederick A. Sawyer40th to 43d1868 to 1873 John J. Patterson43d to 46th1873 to 1879 Matthew

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)

, 1857 [He thus parted from the Southern Democracy.] Robert J. Walker, governor of Kansas, resigns......Dec. 15, 1857 The House of Representatives meet for the first time in the new hall of representatives in the south wing of the extension......Dec. 16, 1857 [By an act approved July 2, 1864, the old hall of representatives was set apart as a national statuary hall, and each State invited to furnish in marble or bronze statues of two of its most distinguished citizens.] James H. Hammond, of South Carolina, makes a memorable speech in the Senate in reply to W. H. Seward......March 4, 1858 [In this speech originated the term mud-sills of society. ] President Buchanan issues a proclamation respecting the Mormon rebellion in Utah......April 6, 1858 Thomas H. Benton dies at Washington, aged seventy-six......April 10, 1858 An act to admit Kansas under the Lecompton constitution......May 4, 1858 Minnesota admitted as the thirty-second State......May 11, 1858

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