Governor of the State of South Carolina




John Peter Richardson
29th Governor of the State of South Carolina 1840 to 1842

Date Born: April 14, 1801				Date Died: January 24, 1864
Place Born: Hickory Hill Plantation in Clarendon County, SC				Place Buried: Richardson Cemetery near Rimini, SC
Residence: Sumter District, SC				Occupation: Lawyer

Moses Waddel's School at Willington, SC (Abbeville District at the time) South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) - graduated in 1819 South Carolina House of Representatives, 1825-1834 South Carolina Senate, 1834-1836 US House of Representatives, 1836-1839 1860 – Richardson signed the Ordinance of Secession - the first official act of the Civil War. Richard, John Peter, a Representative from South Carolina; born at Hickory Hill, S.C., April 14, 1801; graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1819; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Fulton, S.C.; member of the State house of representatives, 1825-1833; judge of the circuit court; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Richard I. Manning; reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from December 19, 1836, to March 3, 1839; Governor of South Carolina 1840-1842; died in Fulton (later Pinewood), Sumter County, S.C., January 24, 1864.

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