South Carolina During the Late 1800s - The 52nd General Assembly (1876-1878)




South Carolina During the Late 1800s - 1865 to 1900

Members of the 52nd General Assembly - 1876 to 1878
This 52nd General Assembly convened in two regular sessions: The first session was held from November 28th to December 22nd in 1876. The second session was held from November 27th to December 20th in 1877, then from January 16th to March 22nd in 1878. A Special Session was convened from April 24th to June 9th in 1877. Delegate counts for the House of Representatives were adjusted.
Election District	Senate	House of Representatives
Abbeville County	John Chappell Maxwell (1)	William Kidd Bradley
		Francis Asbury Conner
		Robert Reid Hemphill
		William Hood
		Thomas L. Moore
Aiken County	Andrew Pickens Butler	Lewis Monroe Asbill
		John Gabriel Guignard
		Claude Epaminondas Sawyer
		James J. Woodward
Anderson County	John Robert Cochran	William Carroll Brown
		James Lawrence Orr
		Richard Wright Simpson
		Henry R. Vandiver
Barnwell County	Jones M. Williams (2) / Thomas Jefferson Counts (3)	Robert Aldrich
		Isaac S. Bamberg
		John Wesley Holmes
		Millidge Aidis Rountree
		Laurins Winkler Youmans
Beaufort County	Samuel Greene (4) / Joseph W. Collins (5)	Hastings Gantt
		Thomas Hamilton
		Thomas Ezekiel Miller
		Nathaniel B. Myers
		George A. Reed
		Joseph Robinson
Charleston County	Samuel Eden Gaillard (6) / James Butler Campbell (7), William Nelson Taft	(8) William J. Brodie / George Lamb Buist
		Richard Bryan / John Calhoun Cain
		Benjamin F. Capers / Sidney C. Eckhard
		F. S. Edwards / D.W. Erwin
		John F. Ficken / John Frederick Ficken
		Adam P. Ford / Thomas B. Hacker
		William C. Glover / E.O. Hall
		Joseph S. Lazarus / Henry Harper
		Joseph J. Lesesne / Benjamin K. Kinloch
		E.W.M. Mackey / Franz Melchers
		James McElvoy / Christopher Gustavus Memminger
		William G. Pinckney / Josiah Cockfield McKewn
		Isaac Prioleau / Bernard O'Neill
		B. H. Rutledge / Robert Barnwell Rhett, Jr.
		Benjamin F. Smalls / Benjamin Huger Rutledge
		Jacob Smalls / Charles Henry Simonton
		Julius C. Tingman / R.D. White
		John Vanderpool / Seat Not Required
Chester County	Dublin J. Walker (9) / William Alexander Walker (10)	Purvis Alxander
		Samuel Coleman
		John Lee (11) / John James Hemphill (12)
Chesterfield County	William Augustus Evans	James Campbell Coit
		David Tomley Redfearn
Clarendon County	Jared D. Warley (13) / John Laurence Manning (14)	Hampton Boston
		Syfax Milton
Colleton County	William Fabriel Myers	H.E. Bissell
		John N. Cummings
		Robert Jones
		William Maree
		Lewis E. Parler
Darlington County	Benjamin Franklin Whittemore (15) / William Caleb Coker (16)	Richard H. Humbert
		Samuel J. Keith (17) / George William Dargan (18)
		Jackson A. Smith
		Zachariah Wines
Edgefield County	Martin Witherspoon Gary (19)	Walter Scott Allen
		James Callison
		Thomas E. Jennings
		Hugh A. Shaw
		John Calhoun Sheppard*
Fairfield County	Israel Bird	Daniel Bird (20) / Henry Augustus Gaillard (21)
		John Gibson (22) / Thomas Scott Brice (23)
		Prince R. Martin
Georgetown County	Bruce H. Williams	Charles Samuel Green
		P.K. Kinloch
Greenville County	Stephen Stanley Crittenden	Joseph Thomas Austin
		James Franklin Donald
		James Walter Gray
		John Latimer Westmoreland
Horry County	William L. Buck	Lucian Dillard Bryan
		John Robertson Cooper
Kershaw County	Frank Carter	Eugene Herriot Dibble (24)
		Reuben D. Gaither (24)
		Allison W. Hough (24)
Lancaster County	Frederick Albert Clinton (25) / John Dunovant Wylie (26)	Julius C. Blakeney
		John Bratton Erwin
Laurens County	Rutherford Pressley Todd (27)	David Wade Anderson
		Joseph Benson Humbert
		James Washington Watts
Lexington County	Henry Adam Meetze	Godfrey Leaphart
		Gerhard Muller
Marion County	Richard Grandison Howard	John Gilchrest Blue
		James Preston Davis
		James McRae
		Robert Hampton Rogers
Marlboro County	Henry J. Maxwell (28) / Charles Spencer McCall (29)	Thomas Nelson Edens
		Philip May Hamer
Newberry County	Henry C. Corwin (30) / James Nathan Lipscomb (31)	Sampson S. Bridges
		Thomas Keitt (32) / George Johnstone (33)
		William H. Thomas (34) / Young John Pope (35)
Oconee County	James William Livingston	Benjamin Franklin Sloan
		John Samuel Verner
Orangeburg County	Samuel L. Duncan	Christian Westley Caldwell
		Ellis Forrest
		Shadrach Morgan
		William H. Reedish
		Daniel Augustus Straker (36) / Samuel Dibble (37)
Pickens County	Robert Esli Bowen	E.H. Bates
		David Franklin Bradley
Richland County	William Beverly Nash (38) / John Herman Kinsler (39)	Andrew W. Curtis
		William M. Lowman
		Charles S. Minort (40) / John Cheves Haskell (41)
		Robert John Palmer
		James Wells
Spartanburg County	Gabriel Cannon	Ezra Sylvester Allen
		William Poole Compton
		Charles Petty
		John Wesley Wofford
Sumter County	William E. Johnston (42) / Thomas Boone Fraser (43)	William J. Andrews
		Thomas Brent Johnston (44) / John B. Johnston (45)
		John Holt Feriter
		John H. Westberry
Union County	Thomas Bothwell Jeter**	William Jefferies
		Glenn Dickson Peake
		William Henry Wallace* / Robert Wallace Shand (46)
Williamsburg County	Stephen A. Swails** / James McCutchen (47)	John Evans
		James Farmer Peterson
		William Scott
York County	Isaac Donnom Witherspoon	William Bolivar Byers
		J. A. Deal
		Adolphus Eugene Hutchinson
		Benjamin Harper Massey
* William Henry Wallace was elected as Speaker of the House. He was then elected as a Judge of the 7th Judicial Circuit of SC on December 5, 1877 and he resigned from the House on December 7, 1877. John Calhoun Sheppard was then elected as Speaker of the House on December 7, 1877. John Trimmier Sloan was elected as Clerk.
** Stephen A. Swails was elected as President Pro Tempore of the Senate. He resigned on November 27, 1877. Thomas Bothwell Jeter was then elected as President Pro Tempore of the Senate on November 28, 1877. Josephus Woodruff was elected as Clerk. He resigned on November 27, 1877. Thomas Stobo Farrow was then elected as Clerk on November 28, 1877.
(1) Election protested, but no evidence that it was overturned. He qualified on 4/24/1877.
(2) Jones M. Williams died on February 14, 1877.
(3) Elected to replace Jones M. Williams, qualified on 4/24/1877.
(4) Resigned after the first session.
(5) Elected to replace Samuel Greene, qualified on 1/18/1878.
(6) Resigned on October 15, 1877 due to an investigation of his activities.
(7) Elected to replace Samuel Eden Gaillard, qualified on 12/1/1877.
(8) In the general election of October 1876, those to the left of the hash mark (/) were elected. The House refused to seat these men on May 29, 1877, during the Special Session, because of their involvement in the rival "Mackey House" during November and December of 1876. In a new election, those to the right of the hash mark (/) were elected and then seated for the remainder of this general assembly.
(9) Dublin J. Walker resigned on April 25, 1877 after his arrest for issuing fraudulent teacher pay certificates.
(10) Elected to replace Dublin J. Walker, qualified on 5/18/1877.
(11) Elected in the general election of 1876, but he was deemed ineligible since he already held the office of Postmaster at the town of Chester.
(12) Seated in place of John Lee on April 27, 1877 since he had the third highest number of votes in the 1876 general election.
(13) Resigned after the first session.
(14) Elected to replace Jared D. Warley, qualified on 1/17/1878.
(15) Resigned after the Special Session in 1877.
(16) Elected to replace Benjamin Franklin Whittemore, qualified on 11/27/1877.
(17) Resigned circa November 1, 1877.
(18) Elected to replace Samuel J. Keith, qualified on 12/5/1877.
(19) Election protested, but no evidence that it was overturned. He qualified on 4/24/1877.
(20) Resigned on April 25, 1877.
(21) Elected to replace Daniel Bird, qualified on 5/16/1877.
(22) Resigned on April 28, 1877.
(23) Elected to replace John Gibson, qualified on 5/16/1877.
(24) The election in Kershaw County was protested by W.Z. Leitner, but the protest was disallowed on 5/2/1877, and those listed took their seats.
(25) Resigned after the first session.
(26) Elected to replace Frederick Albert Clinton, qualified on 12/7/1877.
(27) Election protested, but no evidence it was successful. He qualified on April 24, 1877.
(28) Resigned in October of 1877 following his convinction for bribery.
(29) Elected to replace Henry J. Maxwell, qualified on 11/27/1877.
(30) Resigned on October 12, 1877, after his election was protested by James Nathan Lipscomb.
(31) Henry C. Corwin's election was declared invalid on December 6, 1877, Lipscomb qualified for the SC Senate on the same date.
(32) Expelled from the House on December 1, 1877 for the crime of bigamy, for which he was confined in the Newberry County Jail.
(33) Elected to replace Thomas Keitt, qualified on 1/16/1878.
(34) William H. Thomas was denied his seat on May 1, 1877 for his gross contempt and defiant attitude against the law and the dignity of the House.
(35) Elected to replace William H. Thomas, qualified on 11/27/1877.
(36) Daniel Augustus Straker was denied his seat on May 1, 1877 for his gross contempt and defiant attitude against the law and the dignity of the House.
(37) Elected to replace Daniel Augustus Straker, qualified on 6/1/1877.
(38) Resigned before October 15, 1877, after an investigation for defrauding the state.
(39) Elected to replace William Beverly Nash, qualified on 11/27/1877.
(40) Resigned circa November 10, 1877 following an indictment for accepting a bribe to vote for John J. Patterson as U.S. Senator from South Carolina in 1873.
(41) Elected to replace Charles S. Minort, qualified on 11/27/1877.
(42) Resigned after the first session.
(43) Elected to replace William E. Johnston, qualified on 12/11/1877.
(44) Thomas Brent Johnston was denied his seat on May 30, 1877 because he refused to purge himself of contempt for qualifying in the Mackey house. His seat was declared vacant on December 3, 1877.
(45) Elected to replace Thomas Brent Johnston, qualified on 1/17/1878. There was a controversy over his election, and after a long investigation, he was allowed to take his seat on the date he qualified.
(46) Elected to replace William Henry Wallace, qualified on 1/16/1878.
(47) Elected to replace Stephen A. Swails, qualified on 1/16/1878.

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