resting_place district death_place death_date predecessor birth_place successor party profession term_end birth_date term_start article_title state name alma_mater
charleston , south carolina 1st charleston , south carolina 31 january 1913 william elliott rockville , south carolina richard s. whaley democratic lawyer january 31 , 1913 11 november 1869 march 4 , 1903 george swinton legaré
 south carolina george swinton legaré university of south carolina georgetown university
george swinton legaré

george swinton legaré -lrb- november 11 , 1869 -- january 31 , 1913 -rrb- was a politician from south carolina ; born in rockville , s.c. shortly after birth moved to charleston , s.c. .
at charleston , he graduated from the porter military academy , now the exclusive porter-gaud school , in 1889 .
he then attended the law department of the university of south carolina at columbia for two years ; was graduated from georgetown university law school , washington , d.c. , in 1893 .
he was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced a legal practice in charleston , s.c. .
he was elected as a democrat to the fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding congresses .
he served from march 4 , 1903 , until his death , before the close of the sixty-second congress ; had been reelected to the sixty-third congress .
his death was in charleston , s.c. , january 31 , 1913 ; interment in magnolia cemetery .
