- Franklin H. Elmore
Infobox Senator
name=Franklin Harper Elmore
width=200px
jr/sr and state=Junior Senator,South Carolina
party=Democrat
term=April 11 ,1850 –May 29 ,1850
preceded=John C. Calhoun
succeeded=Robert W. Barnwell
date of birth=October 15 ,1799
place of birth=Laurens County, South Carolina , USA
date of death=May 29 ,1850
place of death=Washington, D.C. , USA
spouse=
religion=
profession=Politician ,Lawyer
footnotes=Franklin Harper Elmore (
October 15 ,1799 –May 29 ,1850 ) was aUnited States Representative and Senator. Born in Laurens District, he graduated from theSouth Carolina College at Columbia in 1819, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1821 and commenced practice in Waterboro. He wassolicitor for the southern circuit from 1822 to 1836, acolonel on the staff of the Governor from 1824 to 1826, and was elected as aState Rights Democrat to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofJames H. Hammond . Elmore was reelected to the Twenty-fifth Congress and served fromDecember 10 ,1836 , toMarch 3 ,1839 . From 1839 to 1850 he was president of the Bank of the State of South Carolina 1839-1850; he declined appointment by President James Polk as Minister to Great Britain. Elmore was appointed as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofJohn C. Calhoun and served fromApril 11 ,1850 , until his own death inWashington, D.C. in 1850; interment was in First Presbyterian Churchyard, Columbia.References
External links
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