Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook

33rd Governor of the State of South Carolina 1848 to 1850

Date Born: June 30, 1793

Date Died: April 16, 1855

Place Born: Edisto Island, SC

Place Buried: Gunbluff Plantation, Edisto Island, SC

Residence: Beaufort County, SC

Occupation: Lawyer, Planter, Author


College of New Jersey - graduated 1812

South Carolina House of Representatives, 1814-1829
South Carolina Senate, 1826-1834
Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, 1834-1836

Seabrook authored History of the Cotton Plant


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