South Carolina During the Late 1800s - The 59th General Assembly (1890-1891)




South Carolina During the Late 1800s - 1865 to 1900

Members of the 59th General Assembly - 1890 to 1891
This 59th General Assembly convened in two regular sessions: The first session was held from November 25th to December 24th in 1890. The second session was held from November 24th to December 24th in 1891. In 1888, the SC General Assembly established Florence County, and its citizens voted in new delegates in the 1890 general election. Darlington County and Marion County had their number of delegates in the House of Representatives reduced as a result.
Election District	Senate	House of Representatives
Abbeville County	Robert Reid Hemphill	Preston Brooks Carwile
		Frank Boyd Gary
		Thomas Addison Graham
		James Townes Robertson
		James Ebenezer Todd
Aiken County	John Murphy Bell	Owen Alderman
		John Gary Evans
		Mansel T. Gunter
		F.P. Woodward
Anderson County	James Perry Glenn	James Waddell Bowden
		John Enoch Breazeale
		Abner R. Cox
		Julius Richard Earle
Barnwell County	Daniel Paul Sojourner (1) / William Seaborn Bamberg (2)	Henry Calhoun Folk
		James Carroll McMillan
		Samuel Seymore Owens (3) / Henry Hayne Crum (4)
		Arthur Howard Patterson
		J. Ryerson Smith (5) / I.L. Attaway (6)
Beaufort County	William Johnson Verdier	Thomas R. Fields
		Sanders Glover
		James Wigg
Berkeley County	Hawkins King Jenkins	J.V. Breeland (7) / P.H.D. Blake (8)
		Richard Morrison Lofton (7) / J.S. Hart (8)
		Mark P. Richardson (7) / Joseph Arnold Harvey (8)
		Andrew Singleton (7) / Charles A. Ravenel (8)
		Thomas H. Wallace (7) / Thaddeus Warsaw Stanland (8)
Charleston County	George Lamb Buist, Augustine Thomas Smythe	Rufus Calvin Barkley
		S.C. Bissell
		A.H. DuPre
		John Frederick Ficken (9)
		Edward Walter Hughes
		George Maxwell Mears
		Benjamin Huger Rutledge, Jr.
		James Simons, Jr.
		David A.J. Sullivan
		Kirby Simth Tupper
		George Frederick VonKolnitz, Jr.
		John F. Witcofsky
Chester County	John Hemphill McDaniel	Jesse H. Hardin
		Peter Lawrence Hardin
		Candor Walker McFadden
Chesterfield County	David Townley Redfearn	James Madison Hough
		Franklin Pierce Taylor
Clarendon County	Louis Henry DesChamps	James Manning Richardson
		I.M. Woods
Colleton County	Archibald Campbell Sanders	J.H. Browning
		John Richard Perry Fox
		Isaac John Hutto
		James Wilson Miley
		J.R. Stokes
Darlington County	James Wesley Beasley	H.C. Burn
		John Sebastian DuBose
		D.C. McColl
Edgefield County	William Judson Ready (10) / Washington Hodges Timmerman (11)	Cornelius Prioleua Boozer
		Ernest Gary
		Calvin W. Kinard
		Washington Hodges Timmerman (11) / Henry Howard Townes (12)
		William Henry Yeldell
Fairfield County	Thomas William Woodward	Thomas Scott Brice
		Osmund Woodward Buchanan (13)
		Thomas Woodward Traylor
Florence County	Leonard Smiley Bigham	Samuel Robert Chandler
		Brown Bryan McWhite
Georgetown County	Richard Dozier	Robert Bannecka Anderson, Jr.
		Walter Hazard
Greenville County	Milton Lafayette Donaldson	Hugh Blair Buist
		Henry Pierce Goodwin
		John Ramsay Harrison
		John Alexander Mooney
Hampton County	James Washington Moore	Henry Martin Ulmer
		Thomas B. Whatley
		Augustus Marion Youmans
Horry County	Jeremiah Smith	J.B. Daggett
		J.B. Williamson
Kershaw County	James Robert Magill	Thomas Jefferson Kirkland
		G.W. Moseley
		W.F. Russell
Lancaster County	Thomas Jefferson Strait	R.L. Hicklin
		Ira Boyd Jones*
Laurens County	John Williams Ferguson	Anthony Cook Fuller
		John Laurens Manning Irby* / Richard Cannon Watts (14)
		John Griffin Williams
Lexington County	Henry Adams Meetze**	William Honor Fleming Bates
		Godfrey Leaphart (15)
Marion County	Thomas Crawford Moody	Douglas McIntyre
		Daniel Washington McLaurin
		James Norton
Marlboro County	William DeWitt Evans	John Lowndes McLaurin (16)
		Hugh Milton Stackhouse
Newberry County	Joseph Lawrence Keitt	Coleman Livingston Blease
		William D. Hardy
		John W. Scott
Oconee County	Robrt Elijah Mason	Julius Lewis Shanklin
		Albert Zimmerman
Orangeburg County	James William Stokes	Lawrence Summerfield Connor
		John Henry Dukes
		John Conrad Holman
		Onan Beverly Riley
		A.T. Wolfe
Pickens County	William Taylor O'Dell	William Thomas Bowen
		Charles Henry Carpenter
Richland County	John Trimmier Sloan, Jr.	Benjamin Livingston Lindsay Abney
		Edward Joseph Brennan
		Lysander D. Childs
		John Cheves Haskell
		Henry Cowper Patton
Spartanburg County	Robert Marion Smith	George Bobo Dean
		Marcus Obadiah Rowland
		Robert Clifton Sarratt
		John Stanyarne Wilson
Sumter County	Henry Taylor Abbott	Arthur Kendrick Sanders (17) / W.K. Creswell (18)
		Frank Mellett (17) / J.E. DuPre (18)
		Altamount Moses
		Robert M. Pitts
Union County	Glenn Dickson Peake	Godfrey B. Fowler
		John Randolph Jefferies
		Robert Little (19) / John Wesley Gregory (20)
Williamsburg County	Asbury Hilliard Williams	David L. Brown
		Henry Edison Eaddy
		Samuel Allen Graham
York County	William Blackburn Wilson, Jr.	W. Norman Elder
		David Edward Finley
		Robert Henry Glenn
		William Whyte
* John Laurens Manning Irby was elected as Speaker of the House. He resigned from the House on December 23, 1890 after being elected to the U.S. Senate. Ira Boyd Jones was then elected as Speaker of the House on December 23, 1890. James Walter Gray was elected as Clerk.
** Henry Adams Meetze was elected as President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Sampson Pope was elected as Clerk.
(1) Resigned in May of 1891 due to ill health.
(2) Elected to replace Daniel Paul Sojourner, qualified on 11/24/1891.
(3) Samuel Seymour Owens died on December 30, 1890.
(4) Elected to replace Samuel Seymour Owens, qualified on 11/24/1891.
(5) J. Ryerson Smith died on July 8, 1891.
(6) Elected to replace J. Ryerson Smith, qualified on 11/24/1891.
(7) Won the general election of November 4, 1890 and qualified to take their seats in the House on November 25, 1890. The entire election was protested and these seats were vacated on December 9, 1890.
(8) These five men were selected after winning their protest of the general election of November 4, 1890, and all five men qualified on December 9, 1890 and took their seats.
(9) Resigned from the House on December 12, 1891 after being elected Mayor of Charleston.
(10) William Judson Ready died on January 16, 1891.
(11) Elected to replace William Judson Ready, qualified in the Senate on 11/24/1891.
(12) Elected to replace Washington Hodges Timmerman, qualified on 11/24/1891.
(13) Resigned from the House on December 8, 1891 because he already held a disqualifying office with the Federal Government, which he had accepted in January of 1891.
(14) Elected to replace John Laurens Manning Irby, qualified on 11/24/1891.
(15) Godfrey Leaphart died on December 13, 1891.
(16) Elected as Attorney General of SC on December 9, 1891, resigned from the House on the next day.
(17) Elected in the general election of November 4, 1890 and qualified on 11/25/1890. However, their election was protested due to irregularities.
(18) The House voted to seat Creswell and DuPre in place of Sanders and Mellett on December 8, 1890, and they were seated by December 10, 1890.
(19) Robert Little died on December 26, 1890.
(20) Elected to replace Robert Little, qualified on 11/24/1891.

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