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| Date Born: August 10, 1790 |
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Date Died: March 11, 1851 |
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| Place Born: Columbia County, GA |
Place Buried: Cherry Hill in Sumter County, SC |
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| Residence: Unknown |
Occupation: Lawyer |
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Moses Waddel's School at Willington (Abbeville District at
the time) South Carolina House of Representatives, 1818-1820 McDuffie fought in two duels while a member of Congress McDuffie, George, (father-in-law of Wade Hampton [1818-1902]), a Representative and a Senator from South Carolina; born in Columbia County, Ga., August 10, 1790; attended an old-field school and a private academy; graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1813; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1814 and commenced practice in Pendleton, Anderson County, S.C.; member, State house of representatives 1818-1819; elected to the Seventeenth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1821, until his resignation in 1834; chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Nineteenth through Twenty-second Congresses); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1830 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against James H. Peck; Governor of South Carolina 1834-1836; president of the board of trustees of South Carolina College; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William C. Preston; reelected, and served from December 23, 1842, until August 17, 1846, when he resigned; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Twenty-ninth Congress); died at ‘Cherry Hill,’ Sumter District, S.C., March 11, 1851. |
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