district resting_place predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place occupation party term_end birth_date term_start article_title state name otherparty
8th 9th congressional cemetery , washington , d.c. john carter joseph brevard richard irvine manning i john carter 1 april 1834 waxhaws , lancaster county , south carolina washington , d.c. planter jacksonian democratic-republican -lrb- until 1825 -rrb- april 1 , 1834 may 8 , 1822 26 september 1786 march 4 , 1829 march 4 , 1821 james blair -lrb- south carolina -rrb-
 south carolina south carolina james blair jacksonian -lrb- after 1825 -rrb-
james blair -lrb- south carolina -rrb-

james blair -lrb- september 26 , 1786 -- april 1 , 1834 -rrb- was a united states representative from south carolina .
he was born in the waxhaw settlement , lancaster county , south carolina to sarah douglass and william blair .
he engaged in planting and was also the sheriff of lancaster district .
blair was elected as a democratic-republican to the seventeenth congress and served from march 4 , 1821 , to may 8 , 1822 , when he resigned .
he was elected as a jacksonian to the twenty-first through twenty-third congresses and served from march 4 , 1829 , until his death in washington , d.c. , on april 1 , 1834 .
under date of december 24 , 1833 , john quincy adams records in his diary that blair `` had knocked down and very severely beaten duff green , editor of the `` telegraph '' ... '' `` diary '' -lrb- new york , longmans , green , 1929 -rrb- p. 434 .
he paid `` three hundred dollars fine for beating and breaking the bones '' of green .
op .
cit. , p. 450 .
under date of april 2 , 1834 , john quincy adams records in his diary that blair `` shot himself last evening at his lodgings ... after reading part of an affectionate letter from his wife , to governor murphy , of alabama who was alone in the chamber with him , and a fellow-lodger at the same house . ''
op .
cit .
p. 434 .
he was buried in congressional cemetery ; his tombstone inscription includes his command as general of the south carolina 5th militia brigade .
