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| Affiliation | Democratic-Republican |
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| Name | John Kershaw |
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Camden, South Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
September 12, 1765
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| Died | August 04, 1829
(63 years)
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| Contributor | Joshua L. |
| Last Modifed | Joshua L.
Dec 09, 2005 06:09pm |
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| Info | KERSHAW, John, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Camden, Kershaw County, S.C., September 12, 1765; attended Rushworth School and Oxford College, England; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Camden, S.C.; engaged in planting and wheat milling; tobacco inspector in 1789; member of the constitutional convention in 1790; judge of the county court of Kershaw when first established in 1791; member of the State house of representatives in 1792-1794 and 1800-1801; mayor of Camden in 1798, 1801, 1811, and 1822; justice of quorum from Kershaw County in 1806; captain of the First South Carolina Light Dragoons; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1815); chairman, Committee on Accounts (Thirteenth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress; engaged in the settling of his father’s estates and planting; died in Camden, S.C., August 4, 1829; interment in the Kershaw family burial ground.
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