John Hugh Means

34th Governor of the State of South Carolina 1850 to 1852

Date Born: August 18, 1812

Date Died: August 29, 1862

Place Born: Fairfield District, SC

Place Buried: Unknown

Residence: Fairfield District, SC

Occupation: Brigadier General in SC Militia, Colonel in Confederate Army


Mount Zion College - Winnsboro, South Carolina
South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) - graduated 1832

1860 – Means signed the Ordinance of Secession - the first official act of the Civil War.
1862 – Means died in the Second Battle of Bull Run while serving in the Confederate States Army


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