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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Orr , James Lawrence 1822 - (search)
Orr, James Lawrence 1822-
Statesman; born in Craytonville, S. C., May 12, 1822; graduated at the University of Virginia in 1842; became a lawyer at Anderson, S. C.; and edited a newspaper there in 1843.
After serving in the State legislature, he became a member of Congress in 1849, and remained such by re-election until 1859.
He was speaker of the Thirty-Fifth Congress.
In the South Carolina convention of Dec. 20, 1860, he voted for secession, and was appointed one of three commissioners to treat with the national government for the surrender of the United States forts in Charleston Harbor to the Confederates.
He was a Confederate Senator from 1862 to 1865, and provisional governor of South Carolina from 1866 to 1868, under the appointment of the President.
He afterwards acted with the Republican party, and in 1870 was made judge of the United States circuit court.
In 1873 he was appointed United States minister to Russia, and died soon after his arrival there, May 5.