John Lawrence Manning

John Lawrence Manning, also John Laurence Manning,cite web |title=South Carolina SC - John Lawrence Manning - 1852 - 1854 |publisher=SCIway.net |url=http://www.sciway.net/hist/governors/jlmanning.html |accessdate=2007-09-22] (January 29, 1816ndash October 24, 1889) was an antebellum Democratic Governor of South Carolina from 1852 to 1854.

In 1838, John L. Manning married Susan Frances Hampton (1816-1845), daughter of General Wade Hampton I and his wife, Mary Cantey, and half-sister of Colonel Wade Hampton II, who though he alone inherited their father's considerable fortune, shared it equally with her and another sister. She died giving birth to their third child. In 1848 Manning married Sally Bland Clarke and had four children by her. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n5_v151/ai_19997797 Smith, Thomas Gordon, "Living with antiques: Millford Plantation in South Carolina", Antiques Magazine, May, 1997] ]

John Manning and his wife, Susan, had Millford Plantation built in 1839 mear Pinewood, South Carolina. It is now a National Historic Landmark. [ [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n5_v151/ai_19997797 Smith, Thomas Gordon, "Living with antiques: Millford Plantation in South Carolina", Antiques Magazine, May, 1997] ]

The town of Manning, South Carolina was named for him. [ [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~scsumter/places/places.html Names in the Old Sumter District] ]

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* [http://www.sciway.net/hist/governors/jlmanning.html SCIway Biography of John Lawrence Manning]
* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=6d33f84c3266a010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD NGA Biography of John Lawrence Manning]