William Lowndes (congressman)
- William Lowndes (congressman)
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William Jones Lowndes (1782 – 1822) was an American lawyer, planter, and statesman from South Carolina who was the son of Rawlins Lowndes, an American Revolutionary War leader from South Carolina. He married Elizabeth Pinckney, daughter of Federalist leader Thomas Pinckney, and served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1804 to 1808. He represented South Carolina in the U.S. Congress from 1811 to 1822, and served four years as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. He worked to achieve a compromise on sectional issues like tariffs and slavery, and assisted in the creation of the second national bank. Lowndes was nominated in 1821 by the South Carolina legislature as a presidential candidate for the election of 1824, but died of illness in 1822.
Lowndes County, Mississippi; Lowndes County, Georgia; and Lowndes County, Alabama are named in his honor.
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* [http://www.hillmanc.fsnet.co.uk/lowndes.htm Genealogy of the Lowndes family in South Carolina]
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