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New page: ‘’’Langdon Cheves’’’, a Representative from South Carolina; born September 17, 1776, in Bulltown Fort, near Rocky River, Ninety-sixth District (now Abbeville County), S.C.,...
‘’’Langdon Cheves’’’, a Representative from [[South Carolina]]; born September 17, 1776, in Bulltown Fort, near Rocky River, Ninety-sixth District (now Abbeville County), S.C., where the [[settlers]] had taken refuge from the onslaught of the [[Cherokee Indians]]; [[homeschooling|received his early education at his home]] and Andrew Weed’s School near Abbeville, S.C.; joined his father in [[Charleston]], S.C., in 1786 and continued his schooling in that city; studied [[law]]; was admitted to the bar October 14, 1797, and commenced practice in Charleston; city [[alderman]] in 1802; member of the State house of representatives 1802-1804 and 1806-1808; elected [[attorney general]] of the State in 1808; elected as a [[Republican]] to the Eleventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert Marion, having previously been elected to the Twelfth Congress; reelected to the Thirteenth Congress, and served from December 31, 1810, to March 3, 1815; succeeded [[Henry Clay]] as Speaker of the House of Representatives during the second session of the Thirteenth Congress; chairman, [[Committee on Ways and Means]] (Twelfth Congress), Committee on the Naval Establishment (Twelfth Congress); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress and also the position of [[Secretary of the Treasury]] tendered by [[James Madison|President Madison]]; resumed the practice of law; elected associate justice of law and appeal in December 1816; resigned in 1819; declined to accept an appointment as [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court]] of the United States; elected president of the [[National Bank|Bank]] of the United States March 6, 1819, and held this office until 1822, when he resigned; chief commissioner of claims under the treaty of Ghent; resided in [[Philadelphia]] and [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]] 1819-1826 and in Lancaster, Pa., 1826-1829; returned to South Carolina in 1829; engaged extensively in the cultivation of [[rice]] in South Carolina and [[Georgia]]; tendered an appointment by the [[Governor]] of South Carolina to the [[United States Senate]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of [[John C. Calhoun]], but declined; delegate to the Southern convention at [[Nashville]], Tenn., in 1850 and to the State convention at Columbia, S.C., in 1852; died in Columbia, S.C., June 26, 1857; interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
==References==
*http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
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==References==
*http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp
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[[Category:United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Speakers of the House(US)]]