South Carolina During the Antebellum Period - The 15th General Assembly (1802-1804)




South Carolina During the Antebellum Period - 1801 to 1860

Members of the 15th General Assembly - 1802 to 1804
This General Assembly convened in two regular sessions, held from November 22nd to December 18th in 1802, and held from November 21st to December 17th in 1803. A Special Session was convened from May 10th to May 16th in 1804.
House of Representatives
Election District	Delegates
Abbeville District	James Gowdey
	Josiah Patterson
	John Weatherall
All Saints Parish (in the Horry District & Georgetown District)	William Vereen, Jr.
Barnwell District (aka Winton election district)	Stephen Curry
	Darling Peoples
	Lawrence Trotti (1)
Chester District	Thomas Baker Franklin
	John McCreary (2) / George Gill (3)
Chesterfield District	Allan Chapman
	William Falconer
Christ Church Parish (in the Charleston District)	Charles James Air (4) / John R. Witherspoon (5)
	Joseph Alston
	Anthony Vanderhorst Toomer
Claremont District (in the Sumter District)	Anthony Butler
	John Ervin James (6) / Ezekiel DuBose (7)
Clarendon District (in the Sumter District)	James Burchill Richardson (8) / Charles Richardson (9)
	John Peter Richardson
Darlington District	James Russell, Jr.
	Samuel Wilds (10) / Timothy Dargan (11)
Edgefield District	LeRoy Hammond
	Richard Johnson, Jr.
	Samuel Mays
Fairfield District	David Read Evans
	William McMorris
Georgetown District (aka Prince George's, Winyah Parish)	Joseph Blyth
	Erasmus Rothmaler
	Samuel Wragg
Greenville District	Thomas Edwards
	James Kilgore
Horry District	Thomas Fearwell
	Thomas Livingston
Kershaw District	James Chestnut* / Isaac DuBose (12)
	Willis Whitaker
Lancaster District	James Douglass
	John Montgomery
Laurens District	William Burnsides
	Robert Hutchinson
	Starling Tucker
Marion District	James Ervin
	Thomas Harlee
Marlboro District	William Thomas Easterling (13)
	William Pledger
Newberry District	William Calmes
	John Hampton
	George Harbert
Orange Parish (in the Orangeburg District)	John Hill
	James Stewart
Pendleton District	Elijah Brown
	Eliab Moore
	John Taylor
Prince William's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	Alexander Robert Chisolm
	Berkeley Ferguson
	William Maine Hutson
Richland District	Thomas Henry Egan
	John Goodwyn
St. Andrew's Parish (in the Colleton District)	John Ladson Fraser (14) / Daniel Elliott Huger (15)
	Christopher Fuller
	Thomas Hunt
St. Bartholomew's Parish (in the Colleton District)	Arthur Hughes
	William Cotesworth Pinckney
	Richard Singleton, Jr.
St. George's, Dorchester Parish (in the Colleton District)	James Preston Appleby
	William Ioor
	James Ransom Stewart
St. Helena's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	William Reynolds (16)
	John Rhodes
	Richard Bedon Screven
St. James, Goose Creek Parish (in the Charleston District)	David Deas
	John DuPont
	Moses Glover
St. James, Santee Parish (in the Charleston District)	Peyre Gaillard
	Elias Horry
	Frederick Rutledge (17) / Philip Tidyman (17) / Richard Shackleford (18)
St. John's, Berkeley Parish (in the Charleston District)	Gabriel Gignilliat (19) / James Richbourg (20)
	Robert McKelvey
	George Porcher
St. John's, Colleton Parish (in the Colleton District)	Lewis Gibbes (21) / William Meggett (21) (22)
	Richard Jenkins
	Benjamin Seabrook
St. Luke's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	Joseph Bellinger
	Abraham DuPont
	Christopher Edward Leacraft
St. Matthew's Parish (in the Orangeburg District)	Robert Hailes
	Benjamin Hart
St. Paul's Parish (in the Colleton District)	William Boone Mitchell
	Thomas Smith, Jr.
	Thomas Wilson
St. Peter's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	David DeLoach
	James Porcher
	Seth Stafford (23)
St. Philip's & St. Michael's Parish (in the Charleston District)	Thomas Bennett
	Langdon Cheves
	Thomas Corbett, Jr.
	John Dawson
	Henry Deas
	John Drayton
	John Horlbeck, Jr.
	Basil Lanneau
	James Lowndes
	Henry Middleton
	Thomas Pinckney
	John Cordes Prioleau
	Keating Lewis Simons
	Thomas Simons
	Thomas Somersall
St. Stephen's Parish (in the Charleston District)	Theodore Gaillard
	John Palmer, Jr.
	Peter Porcher, Jr.
St. Thomas's & St. Dennis's Parish (in the Charleston District)	Thomas Joell
	Thomas Mitchell
	Isham Williams
Saxe Gotha District (in the Orangeburg District)	John Bynum (24) / Joseph Williams (25)
	Alexander Boling Stark
	Robert Stark**
Spartanburg District	Berryman DeLaShumate (26) / William Thompson (27)
	Isham Harrison (28) / William Lancaster (29)
Union District	Joseph Gist
	William Kennedy
Williamsburg District	John Dickey
	Robert Witherspoon
York District	William Hill
	John McClennahan
	James Mitchell
Senate
Election District	Delegates
Abbeville District	Joseph Calhoun
All Saints Parish	Thomas Young (30) / Paul Michau (31)
Barnwell District	Charles Goodwin
Christ Church Parish	James Hibben
Clarendon & Claremont District	Thomas McFadden
Edgefield District	Arthur Simkins
Fairfield, Chester, & Richland Districts	Thomas Taylor
Georgetown District & Williamsburg District	John James
Greenville District	Elias Earle
Horry & Marion Districts	Thomas T. Wickham (32) / Leonard Dozier (33)
Lancaster & Kershaw Districts	Robert D. Montgomery
Laurens District	James Saxon
Marlboro, Chesterfield, & Darlington Districts	Alexander McIntosh Benjamin Roger
Newberry District	Levi Casey (34) / William Thomas Caldwell (35)
Pendleton District	Thomas Farrar
Prince William's Parish	John McPherson
St. Andrew's Parish	James Ladson
St. Bartholomew's Parish	O'Brien Smith
St. George's, Dorchester Parish	Mathias Hutchinson
St. Helena's Parish	Robert Gibbes Barnwell
St. James, Goose Creek Parish	William Allen Deas
St. James, Santee Parish	Samuel Warren
St. John's, Berkeley Parish	Robert Marion
St. John's, Colleton Parish	John Ward***
St. Luke's Parish	James Postell
St. Matthew's Parish & Orange Parish	Henry Dana Ward
St. Paul's Parish	William Washington
St. Peter's Parish	Samuel Maner
St. Philip's & St. Michael's Parish	John Blake Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
St. Stephen's Parish	John Gaillard***
St. Thomas's & St. Dennis's Parish	Roger Pinckney
Saxe Gotha District	John Threewits
Spartanburg District	Henry Wells
Union District	John Blassingame
York District	Andrew Love (36) / William Smith (37)
* Declined to serve.
** Elected Speaker of the House. Thomas Lee was elected Clerk, and was later elected as an Associate Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions on 5/15/1804. Richard Gantt was elected as Clerk on 5/16/1804, replacing Thomas Lee.
*** John Ward was elected President of the Senate, but he resigned due to illness in his family on 11/24/1803. John Gaillard was elected as President of the Senate on 11/24/1803 to replace John War. David Ellison Dunlap was elected Clerk, but he died on 9/10/1804.
(1) Elected as Sheriff of the Barnwell District on December 2, 1803. Resigned his seat in the House
(2) Elected as Sheriff of the Chester District on December 10, 1802. Resigned his seat in the House.
(3) Elected to replace John McCreary, qualified on 11/24/1803.
(4) Charles James Air was murdered on March 5, 1803.
(5) Elected to replace Charles James Air, qualified on 11/28/1803.
(6) John Ervin James died on November 21, 1803.
(7) Elected to replace John Ervin James, qualified on 12/12/1803.
(8) Elected as SC Governor on December 8, 1802, had to give up his seat in the House.
(9) Elected to replace James Burchill Richardson, qualified on 11/24/1803.
(10) Elected as Solicitor of the Northern Circuit on 12/18/1802, had to give up his seat in the House.
(11) Elected to replace Samuel Wilds, qualified on 11/18/1803.
(12) Elected to replace James Chestnut, qualified on 12/10/1802.
(13) Elected as Ordinary of the Marlboro District on December 8, 1803.
(14) Died on September 20, 1803.
(15) Elected to replace John Ladson Fraser, qualified on 12/5/1803.
(16) Elected in the general election of 1802, but no evidence that he qualified or actually served.
(17) Received equal votes in the general election of 1802, promulgating a special election.
(18) Elected in a special election, qualified on 12/5/1803.
(19) Died in 1803.
(20) Elected to replace Gabriel Gignilliat, qualified on 11/29/1803.
(21) Election irregularities promulgated a special election.
(22) Elected in a special election, qualified on 11/24/1803.
(23) Elected in the general election of 1802, but no evidence that he qualified or actually served.
(24) Elected as Surveyor General of South Carolina on December 8, 1802, had to give up his seat in the House.
(25) Elected to replace John Bynum, qualified on 11/24/1803.
(26) Berryman DeLaShumate died on either 11/30/1802 or 12/1/1802.
(27) Elected to replace Berryman DeLaShumate, qualified on 11/24/1803.
(28) Elected as Sheriff of the Spartanburg District on 12/14/1802, had to give up his seat in the House.
(29) Elected to replace Isham Harrison, qualified on 11/24/1803.
(30) Thomas Young died on March 21, 1804.
(31) Elected to replace Thomas Young, qualified on 5/12/1804.
(32) Granted a leave of absence on 12/1/1803 and died sometime between that date and 6/11/1804.
(33) Elected to replace Thomas T. Wickham, qualified on 5/11/1804.
(34) Resigned after the first session to take his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
(35) Elected to replace Levi Casey, qualified on 11/24/1803.
(36) Moved from the state sometime between December of 1802 and November of 1803.
(37) Elected to replace Andrew Love, qualified on 11/24/1803.

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