lieutenant death_date birth_date term_end death_place profession preceded term_start order spouse image name succeeded predecessor birth_place jr/sr party office state district successor article_title
isaac donnom witherspoon 13 november 1864 15 november 1807 november 26 , 1836 11 , 1860 december 7 , 1844 february beech island , south carolina politician , lawyer , publisher , teacher andrew p. butler john m. felder december 4 , 1835 7 , 1857 december 8 , 1842 march 60th catherine e. fitzsimmons jhhammond.jpg james henry hammond frederick a. sawyer franklin h. elmore john peter richardson ii newberry county , south carolina united states senator democratic , nullifier governor of south carolina south carolina south carolina 4th william aiken , jr. . james henry hammond

james henry hammond

james henry hammond -lrb- november 15 , 1807november 13 , 1864 -rrb- was an attorney , politician and planter from south carolina .
he served as a united states representative from 1835 to 1836 , the 60th governor of south carolina from 1842 to 1844 , and united states senator from 1857 to 1860 .
he was considered one of the major spokesmen in favor of slavery in the years before the american civil war .
acquiring property through marriage , he ultimately owned 22 square miles , several plantations and houses , and more than 300 slaves .
through his wife 's family , he was a brother-in-law of wade hampton ii and uncle to his children , including wade hampton iii .
when the senior hampton learned that hammond had abused his four hampton nieces as teenagers , he made the scandal public .
it was thought to derail hammond 's career for a time , but he was later elected as us senator .
the hampton family suffered more , as none of the girls married .
