Hampton, Wade

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    Wade Hampton
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    White
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    South
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    South Carolina College
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    Democratic
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    Wade Hampton (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    HAMPTON, Wade,  (grandson of Wade Hampton [1752-1835]), a Senator from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., March 28, 1818; received private instruction, graduated from the South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1836; studied law but never practiced; planter; member, State house of representatives 1852-1856; member, State senate 1858-1861; served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, raising and commanding “Hampton’s Legion”; three times wounded; made brigadier general in 1862, major general in 1863, and lieutenant general in 1865; Governor of South Carolina 1876-1879; elected in 1878 as a Democrat to the United States Senate; reelected in 1884 and served from March 4, 1879, until March 3, 1891; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; United States railroad commissioner 1893-1897; died in Columbia, S.C., April 11, 1902; interment in Trinity Cathedral Churchyard.
    “Hampton, Wade,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000141.
    Chicago Style Entry Link
    Cooper, William J., Jr. The Conservative Regime: South Carolina. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968. view record
    How to Cite This Page: "Hampton, Wade," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5823.