Some Congressman buried by MM White
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Congressman buried by MM White
1849 Hon Franklin H
Elmore
Franklin Harper Elmore (October 15, 1799 – May 29, 1850) was
a United States Representative and
Senator. Born in Laurens District, the son
of John Archer Elmore, he graduated from the South Carolina College at Columbia
in 1819, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1821 and commenced practice in
Walterboro. He was solicitor for the southern circuit from 1822 to 1836, a
colonel on the staff of the Governor from 1824 to 1826, and was elected as a
State Rights Democrat to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of James H. Hammond. Elmore was reelected to the
Twenty-fifth Congress and served from December 10, 1836, to March 4, 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 of John C. Calhoun and served from April 11, 1850,
until his own death in Washington, D.C. in 1850. He was interred in the First
Presbyterian Churchyard in Columbia.
1853 Hon Orin Fowler
Orin Fowler (July 29, 1791 – September 3, 1852) was a U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts. B orn in Lebanon, Connecticut, Fowler
pursued classical studies and attended Williams College, Williamstown,
Massachusetts. He graduated from Yale College in 1814. He studied theology and
pursued extensive missionary work in the Valley of the Mississippi. Finally
settled as a minister in Plainfield, Connecticut, in 1820. He moved to Fall
River, Massachusetts, in 1829, where he was installed as pastor of the
Congregational Church in 1831. Wrote a history of Fall River in 1841. He served
in the State senate in 1848.Fowler was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first
and Thirty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1849, until his death in
Washington, D.C., September 3, 1852. He was interred in the North Burial
Ground, Fall River, Massachusetts.
1854 Hon Brookins
Campbell
Brookins Campbell (1808 – December 25, 1853) was an American
politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the
1st congressional district of Tennessee. He was born in Washington County,
Tennessee in 1808. He attended the rural schools and graduated from Washington
College, now known as Washington and Lee University, at Lexington. He studied
law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced. He was a member of the Tennessee
House of Representatives from 1835 to 1839, from 1841 to 1846, and from 1851 to
1853. He served as speaker in 1845.
1856 Hon Moses Morris
Moses Norris Jr. (November 8, 1799 – January 11, 1855) was a
United States Representative and
Senator from New Hampshire. Born in
Pittsfield, he attended the public schools and the Pittsfield Academy, and
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1828. He studied law, was admitted to the
bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Barnstead. He returned to Pittsfield in
1834, was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1837 to
1840 and in 1842, and was a member of the Executive Council of New Hampshire in
1841-1842.
Senator from New Hampshire. Born in
Pittsfield, he attended the public schools and the Pittsfield Academy, and
graduated from Dartmouth College in 1828. He studied law, was admitted to the
bar in 1832 and commenced practice in Barnstead. He returned to Pittsfield in
1834, was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1837 to
1840 and in 1842, and was a member of the Executive Council of New Hampshire in
1841-1842.
Norris was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and
Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847). He was again a member
of the State house of representatives in 1847-1848, and served as speaker. He
was then elected to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1849, until his
death. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Claims
(Thirty-first Congress) and a member of the Committee on Patents and the Patent
Office (Thirty-second Congress) and the Committee on the District of Columbia
(Thirty-third Congress). He died in Washington, D.C. in 1855; interment was in
Floral Park Cemetery, Pittsfield.
1857 Hon Preston
Smith Brooks
Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was
an American politician and Member
1858 Hon Sampson W Harris
Sampson Willis Harris (February 23, 1809 – April 1, 1857)
was an American politician and lawyer in the states of Georgia and Alabama. Harris
was born in Elbert County, Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia
in Athens in 1828, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1830. He began
practicing law in Athens and served in the Georgia House of Representatives in
1834 and 1835.After moving to Wetumpka, Alabama in 1838, Harris was elected as
the solicitor of the eighth circuit in 1841. He then served in the Alabama
Senate in 1844 and 1845. Harris was then elected in 1846 to represent Alabama's
3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives during
the 30th United States Congress and was reelected to three additional terms
(31st, 32nd and 33rd Congresses) in that seat from March 4, 1847, until March
3, 1855. Harris won election to Alabama's 7th congressional district in 1854
and served in the 34th Congress and served from March 4, 1855, until March 3,
1857. He did not seek reelection in 1856 and died on April 1, 1857, less than a
month after leaving congressional office. He was buried in Oconee Hill Cemetery
in Athens.
