Richard Irvine Manning

20th Governor of the State of South Carolina 1824 to 1826

Date Born: May 1, 1798

Date Died: May 1, 1836

Place Born: Sumter County, SC

Place Buried: Trinity Episcopal Churchyard in Columbia, SC

Residence: Sumter County, SC

Occupation: Planter, Captain in SC Militia


South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) - graduated 1811

South Carolina House of Representatives, 1820-1822
South Carolina Senate, 1822-1824
US House of Representatives, 1834-1836

1830 – Manning unsuccessfully sought reelection to the governor's office
1834 – Manning succeeded to membership in the US House of Representatives at the death of Representative James Blair and was elected to a full term later the same year

Gilman Plantation was Manning's home


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