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Sumter is a city in and the county seat of Sumter County,South Carolina,United States. The city makes up the Sumter,SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Sumter County,along with Clarendon and Lee counties,form the core of Sumter–Lee–Clarendon tri-county area of South Carolina that includes three counties straddling the border of the Sandhills,Pee Dee,and Lowcountry regions. The population was 43,463 at the 2020 census,making it the 9th-most populous city in the state.
John Taylor was the 51st Governor of South Carolina from 1826 to 1828.
Andrew Pickens was a militia leader in the American Revolution. A planter and slaveowner,he developed his Hopewell plantation on the east side of the Keowee River across from the Cherokee town of Isunigu (Seneca) in western South Carolina. He was elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives from western South Carolina. Several treaties with the Cherokee were negotiated and signed at his plantation of Hopewell.
The Battle of Fort Sumter was the bombardment of Fort Sumter near Charleston,South Carolina by the South Carolina militia. It ended with its surrender by the United States Army,beginning the American Civil War.
Thomas Sumter was an American military officer,planter,and politician who served in the Continental Army as a brigadier-general during the Revolutionary War. After the war,Sumter was elected to the House of Representatives and to the Senate,where he served from 1801 to 1810,when he retired. Sumter was nicknamed the "Fighting Gamecock" for his military tactics during the Revolutionary War.
Francis Wilkinson Pickens was an American slave owner and politician who served as governor of South Carolina when that state became the first to secede from the United States. A cousin of Senator John C. Calhoun,he was born into the Southern planter class. A member of the Democratic Party,Pickens became an ardent supporter of nullification of federal tariffs when he served in the South Carolina House of Representatives before he was elected to the United States Senate.
Franklin J. Moses Sr. was an attorney,planter,politician and judge in South Carolina. He served as a state senator from 1841 to 1866,when he was elected to the circuit court. He was elected as Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court in 1868 during the Reconstruction era. In 1876 he was asked to rule on a challenge to election returns in the hotly disputed gubernatorial campaign,eventually won by Democrat Wade Hampton and ending Republican domination in the state.
Thomas De Lage Sumter was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina,and a grandson of American Revolutionary War General Thomas Sumter.
The 2004 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 2,2004,as part of the 2004 United States presidential election which took place throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose eight representatives,or electors to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president.
Mary Bonneau "Bonnie" McElveen-Hunter is an American businesswoman,philanthropist,and diplomat who is the first female chair of the board of governors of the American Red Cross. She is the founder and CEO of Pace Communications,a content and integrated marketing agency,and was the U.S. Ambassador to Finland from 2001 to 2003. She served as the finance chairwoman of Elizabeth Dole's campaign for the Republican nomination for U.S. president. She also started the first billion dollar women's leadership campaign in America for the United Way.
The 2002 United States Senate election in South Carolina was held on November 5,2002. Longtime Republican incumbent Strom Thurmond decided to retire at the age of 100,becoming the first centenarian to ever serve in Congress;he later died in June 2003. Thurmond's record as the longest-serving Senator in U.S. history was later surpassed by West Virginia's Robert Byrd.
The High Hills of Santee,sometimes known as the High Hills of the Santee,is a long,narrow hilly region in the western part of Sumter County,South Carolina. It has been called "one of the state's most famous areas". The High Hills of Santee region lies north of the Santee River and east of the Wateree River,one of the two rivers that join to form the Santee. It extends north almost to the Kershaw county line and northeasterly to include the former summer resort town of Bradford Springs. Since 1902 the town has been included in Lee County.
Joseph T. McElveen,Jr. is an American politician and the former state representative from South Carolina. He was the mayor of Sumter,South Carolina who served for 20 years—from November 2000 to November 2020.
Wilson Ashby "Bubba" McElveen Jr. was a politician and mayor of Sumter,South Carolina,United States.
The 2000 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 7,2000,and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 8 representatives,or electors to the Electoral College,who voted for president and vice president.
The 2014 South Carolina gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the Governor of South Carolina,concurrently with the regularly-scheduled election and special election to both of South Carolina's U.S. Senate seats,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Sumter Town Hall-Opera House,also known as the Sumter Academy of Music,is a historic town hall building located at Sumter,Sumter County,South Carolina. It was built in 1893,and is a four-story,ashlar brick Richardsonian Romanesque style building. It features a four-faced clock tower that serves as a focal point for the entire area. The building was remodeled internally in 1936,converting the first floor into a movie theater and the second floor opera house into offices.
Julia Lester Dillon (1871–1959) was an American teacher from Georgia,who because of the death of her husband and her hearing loss,trained in landscape architecture. She was one of the first women to write extensively about gardening in the south and ran a regularly featured column which appeared in several newspapers and magazines. She designed spaces to enhance post offices for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and created the Memorial Park in Sumter,South Carolina. Based on her experience,she then served as Sumter Superintendent of Parks and Trees for twenty years. Dillon remained in Sumter after retiring. She continued writing until 1954,despite losing both her hearing and her sight. Julia Lester Dillon died in Sumter on March 24,1959. She is buried in Magnolia Cemetery in Augusta,Georgia. She was inscribed upon the Georgia Women of Achievement roster in 2003.
A special election was held on June 20,2017,to determine the member of the United States House of Representatives for South Carolina's 5th congressional district. Representative Mick Mulvaney was nominated by President Donald Trump as director of the Office of Management and Budget and confirmed by the United States Senate on February 16,2017,necessitating his resignation from the House of Representatives.
The 2020 South Carolina State Senate elections took place as part of the biennial 2020 United States elections. South Carolina voters elected state senators in all of the state's 46 senate districts. State senators serve four-year terms in the South Carolina Senate,with all of the seats up for election each cycle. The primary elections on June 9,2020,determined which candidates appeared on the November 3,2020,general election ballot.
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