South Carolina During the Antebellum Period - The 21st General Assembly (1814-1815)




South Carolina During the Antebellum Period - 1801 to 1860

Members of the 21st General Assembly - 1814 to 1815
This General Assembly convened in two regular sessions, held from November 28th to December 21st in 1814, and held from November 27th to December 16th in 1815.
House of Representatives
Election District	Delegates
Abbeville District	Joseph Black
	Joseph Hutton
	Patrick Noble
	Samuel Perrin
	Edmund Ware
All Saints Parish (in the Horry District & Georgetown District)	Joseph Green
Barnwell District	Lewis Malone Ayer
	Isaac Bush
	William Walker
Chester District	Henry Bradley
	Hezekiah Donald
	Ferdinand Hopkins
Chesterfield District	John Lowry
Christ Church Parish (in the Charleston District)	Anthony Vanderhorst Toomer
Claremont District (in the Sumter District)	Hastings Jennings
	Charles Miller
	James G. Spann
Clarendon District (in the Sumter District)	John Conyers
Clarendon District (in the Sumter District)	John M. Witherspoon
Darlington District	Timothy Dargan
Darlington District	John J. Muldrow
Edgefield District	David Crawford
	William Garrett
	John Sellard Glascock
	Mathias Jones
	Archy Mayson
	John Pope
Fairfield District	Samuel Alston
	Abner Ross
	William Franklin Pearson
	John Woodward (1) / Turner Starke (2)
Georgetown District (aka Prince George's, Winyah Parish)	Joseph Blyth
	John Coachman
	Francis Alston Deliesseline
	Thomas Rothmaler Mitchell
Greenville District	Philemon Bradford
	Richard Harrison
	William Thurston
	John Wood (3) / Henry T. Walker (4)
Horry District	William Henry Grice
Kershaw District	James Chestnut
Kershaw District	Samuel James
Lancaster District	Benjamin Massey
Lancaster District	Abraham Perry
Laurens District	Charles Allen
	Elihu Creswell
	Robert Long
	Robert Word
Lexington District	Friday Arthur
Lexington District	Abraham Geiger
Marion District	Chesley Daniel (5) / James Robert Ervin (6) / Chesley Daniel (7)
	Alexander Gregg
	Valentine Rowell
Marlboro District	Robertson Carloss
Marlboro District	John Rogers
Newberry District	John Henderson
	Samuel E. Kenner
	George McCreless
	James Williams
Orange Parish (in the Orangeburg District)	John Myers Felder
Orange Parish (in the Orangeburg District)	George Elmore Salley
Pendleton District	Robert Anderson, Jr.
	Samuel Barr
	Samuel A. Easley
	James C. Griffin
	James Osborn
	John Wilson, Jr.
Prince William's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	John Mulligan
Prince William's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	Gresham Smyth
Richland District	Joel Adams
Richland District	Malachi Howell
St. Andrew's Parish (in the Colleton District)	Daniel Elliott Huger
St. Bartholomew's Parish (in the Colleton District)	Hugh Campbell (8) / Nathaniel Heyward, Jr. (9)
	Ephraim Cannon
	James Moore Ford
	James Morgan
St. George's, Dorchester Parish (in the Colleton District)	John Carr (10)
St. Helena's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	William Elliott
St. Helena's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	William John Grayson (11) / John Mark Verdier (12)
St. James, Goose Creek Parish (in the Charleston District)	George Keckley
St. James, Santee Parish (in the Charleston District)	Peter Simmons Arthur
St. James, Santee Parish (in the Charleston District)	James Edward Jerman
St. John's, Berkeley Parish (in the Charleston District)	Peter Gaillard, Sr.
	John Palmer, Jr.
	James Richbourg
St. John's, Colleton Parish (in the Colleton District)	Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook
St. John's, Colleton Parish (in the Colleton District)	William Seabrook
St. Luke's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	Thomas Heyward
St. Luke's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	George Washington Morrall
St. Matthew's Parish (in the Orangeburg District)	Artemus Burnham Darby
St. Paul's Parish (in the Colleton District)	Joseph Fickling (13) / William Clement (14)
St. Paul's Parish (in the Colleton District)	Saintlo Mellichamp (15) / Lewis Morris, Jr. (16)
St. Peter's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	John Seth Maner
St. Peter's Parish (in the Beaufort District)	Benjamin Thompson
St. Philip's & St. Michael's Parish (in the Charleston District)	Thomas Bennett, Jr.**
	Bartholomew Carroll
	John Stevens Cogdell
	Benjamin Elliott (17)
	Thomas Fleming
	John Geddes
	Rene Goddard
	Robert Young Hayne
	Lionel Henry Kennedy
	Joseph Kirkland
	Edward Lynch
	Philip Moser
	John Potter
	William Trescott
	William Walton
St. Stephen's Parish (in the Charleston District)	William Cordes
St. Thomas's & St. Dennis's Parish (in the Charleston District)	Andrew Hasell
Spartanburg District	John Means
	William Reid
	Eber Smith
	James Whitten
Union District	Robert Crenshaw
	Joseph Gist
	Bernard Glenn
Williamsburg District	Thomas M. Brown
Williamsburg District	William Burrows (18)
York District	William McGill
	William Pettus
	Thomas Robertson
Senate
Election District	Delegates
Abbeville District	Nathan Smith Lipscomb
All Saints Parish	William Alston* / Joseph Alston (19)
Barnwell District	James Overstreet
Chester District	John McCreary
Chesterfield District	William McKerall
Christ Church Parish	James Hibben
Claremont District	William Guignard Richardson
Clarendon District	Matthew James
Darlington District	Rasha Cannon
Edgefield District	Francis Burt
Fairfield District	Samuel Johnston
Georgetown District	Nathan Huggins
Greenville District	Lemuel James Alston (20) / Hewlett Sullivan (21)
Horry District	Thomas Fearwell
Kershaw District	Reuben Stark
Lancaster District	Samuel Dunlap
Laurens District	Starling Tucker
Lexington District	John Thomas
Marion District	Thomas Godbold
Marlboro District	Thomas Evans
Newberry District	Frederick Nance
Orange Parish	Donald Rowe
Pendleton District	Obadiah Trimmier
Prince William's Parish	Sampson W. Leith
Richland District	John Hopkins
St. Andrew's Parish	Elias Lynch Horry
St. Bartholomew's Parish	James Rutledge
St. George's, Dorchester Parish	James Preston Appleby
St. Helena's Parish	Joseph Edings (22)
St. James, Goose Creek Parish	Jacob Belser
St. James, Santee Parish	William Cartwright Shackleford
St. John's, Berkeley Parish	Stephen Ravenel
St. John's, Colleton Parish	Benjamin Bailey
St. Luke's Parish	Richard Bedon Screven
St. Matthew's Parish	William Jones Myddleton
St. Paul's Parish	Saintlo Mellichamp
St. Peter's Parish	Samuel McDowell Wallace
St. Philip's & St. Michael's Parish	James Reid Pringle*** William Rouse
St. Stephen's Parish	Charles Sinkler
St. Thomas's & St. Dennis's Parish	Thomas Ashby
Spartanburg District	William Smith
Union District	Joseph Reid
Williamsburg District	John Dozier, Jr.
York District	James Armstrong Whyte
* Declined to serve.
** Thomas Bennett, Jr. was elected Speaker of the House. Richard Gantt was elected as Clerk.
*** James Reid Pringle was elected President of the Senate. John Murphy was elected as Clerk.
(1) Resigned after the first session.
(2) Elected to replace John Woodward, Jr., qualified on 11/28/1815.
(3) Moved out of South Carolina in 1815.
(4) Elected to replace John Wood, qualified on 11/27/1815.
(5) Elected in the general election of 1814, but his election was declared null and void due to voting irregularities.
(6) Elected in a special election, but accepted being commissioned as a Brigadier General and Inspector of Militia, and never qualified or ever took his House seat. Another special election was called.
(7) Elected in a second special election, qualified on 12/9/1815.
(8) Appointed Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions on 2/2/1815.
(9) Elected to replace Hugh Campbell, qualified on 11/27/1815.
(10) Election protested by Charles B. Ladson. House committee found that no poll was opened at the lower place of election because of the death of a child of one of the election managers. The committee found that John Carr should retain his seat, but the overall House disagreed and declared the election null and void on 12/1/1815.
(11) Moved out of South Carolina in 1815.
(12) Elected to replace William John Grayson, qualified on 11/27/1815.
(13) Joseph Fickling died on January 6, 1815.
(14) Elected to replace Joseph Fickling, qualified on 11/27/1815.
(15) Also elected to the SC Senate, which he chose to represent.
(16) Elected to replace Saintlo Mellichamp, qualified on 11/27/1815.
(17) Elected as Register in Equity in Charleston on December 9, 1815.
(18) William Burrows died on December 6, 1815.
(19) Elected to replace William Alston, qualified on 12/16/1814.
(20) Resigned after the first session, moved out of South Carolina.
(21) Elected to replace Lemuel James Alston, qualified on 11/27/1815.
(22) Apparently did not attend the first session, he qualified on 11/27/1815.

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