The Solid South was the electoral voting bloc for the Democratic Party in the Southern United States between the end of the Reconstruction era in 1877 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. During this period, the Democratic Party controlled southern state legislatures and most local, state and federal officeholders in the South were Democrats. During the late 19th century and early 20th century, Southern Democrats disenfranchised nearly all blacks in all the former Confederate states. This resulted in a one-party system, in which a candidate's victory in Democratic primary elections was tantamount to election to the office itself. White primaries were another means that the Democrats used to consolidate their political power, excluding blacks from voting.
Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the Southern United States.
Joseph Brevard Kershaw was a prominent South Carolina planter and slaveholder. He was also a lawyer, judge, and a Confederate general in the American Civil War.
James Butler Bonham was a 19th-century American soldier who died at the Battle of the Alamo during the Texas Revolution. He was a second cousin of William B. Travis and was a messenger of the Battle of the Alamo. His younger brother, Milledge Luke Bonham, was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War, and served as Governor of South Carolina from 1862 to 1864.
Milledge Luke Bonham was an American politician and Congressman. He was later the 70th Governor of South Carolina from 1862 until 1864, and a Confederate General during the American Civil War.
Matthew Calbraith Butler was a Confederate soldier, an American military commander, attorney and politician, and slaveholder from South Carolina. He served as a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, reconstruction era three-term United States Senator, and a major general in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War.
The 1876 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1876, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. The election campaign was a referendum on the Radical Republican-led state government and their Reconstruction policies. Opponents disputed the challenger Wade Hampton III's victory, gained by a margin of little more than 1100 votes statewide. But he took office in April 1877, after President Hayes withdrew federal troops as a result of a national Democratic compromise, and the incumbent Daniel Henry Chamberlain left the state.
The 1882 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1882 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Hugh Smith Thompson was nominated by the Democrats and ran against J. Hendrix McLane, a Greenback-Labor candidate. Thompson easily won the general election and became the 81st governor of South Carolina.
William Butler was an American soldier, planter, slaveholder and United States representative from South Carolina.
The Butler-Belmont family is a family of politicians from the United States.
The 1862–63 United States Senate elections were held on various dates in various states, occurring during the American Civil War. As these U.S. Senate elections were prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, senators were chosen by state legislatures. Senators were elected over a wide range of time throughout 1862 and 1863, and a seat may have been filled months late or remained vacant due to legislative deadlock. In these elections, terms were up for the senators in Class 1.
Darby Plantation plantation house was built by Nathaniel Lipscomb Griffith, the father of Anne Patience Griffith, at the time of her marriage to Edgefield lawyer Milledge Luke Bonham. It has a deep wraparound porch supported by twelve columns. The main rooms are twenty feet by twenty feet with twelve foot ceilings, and the house is built of pine. When Bonham returned from the United States' war with Mexico, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Bonham was put in charge of South Carolina's volunteer army and served with distinction. In 1862, he resigned his commission and became governor of South Carolina. In 1863, the house was sold to Confederate Secretary of the Treasury George Trenholm. During the Civil War, the house was used as a storage place for some of the items from the Charleston Museum. Since 1878, the plantation has been owned by the Wise family.
Milledge Lipscomb Bonham (1854–1943) was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. On October 16, 1854, he was born to Milledge Luke Bonham and Ann Patience Griffin. From 1863 to 1864, Bonham was educated at Sachlaben's Academy, Edgefield Academy between 1866 and 1872, and Carolina Military Institute (Charlotte) from 1875 to 1876. He was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1877 following his tutoring of the law under Colonel Robert Aldrich. He married Daisy Aldrich on October 24, 1878, with whom he had three children. After Daisy died, Bonham remarried to Dr. Lillian L. Carter on March 2, 1925.
The 1826 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on 9 December 1826 in order to elect the Governor of South Carolina. Democratic-Republican candidate and former United States Senator from South Carolina John Taylor was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election is unknown.
The 1834 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on 9 December 1834 in order to elect the Governor of South Carolina. Democratic candidate and incumbent member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 5th district George McDuffie was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election is unknown.
The 1836 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on 10 December 1836 in order to elect the Governor of South Carolina. Democratic candidate Pierce Mason Butler was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election is unknown.
The 1848 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on 12 December 1848 in order to elect the Governor of South Carolina. Democratic candidate and former Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election is unknown.
The 1852 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on 9 December 1852 in order to elect the Governor of South Carolina. Democratic candidate John Lawrence Manning was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election is unknown.
The 1858 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on 10 December 1858 in order to elect the Governor of South Carolina. Democratic candidate and former Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina William Henry Gist was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election is unknown.
The 1864 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on 17 December 1864 in order to elect the Governor of South Carolina. Democratic candidate and incumbent Judge of the Confederate States District Court for the District of South Carolina Andrew Gordon Magrath was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly as he ran unopposed. The exact number of votes cast in this election is unknown.
