Clemson is a city in Pickens and Anderson counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. Clemson is adjacent to Clemson University,and is identified with it;in 2015,the Princeton Review cited the town of Clemson as ranking #1 in the United States for "town-and-gown" relations with its resident university. The population of the city was 17,681 at the 2020 census.
Andrew Pickens Jr. was an American soldier and politician. He served as the 46th Governor of South Carolina from 1816 until 1818.
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.
James Francis Byrnes was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party,he served in the U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court,as well as in the executive branch,most prominently as the 49th U.S. Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman. Byrnes was also the 104th governor of South Carolina,making him one of the very few politicians to have served in the highest levels of all three branches of the American federal government while also being active in state government.
John Isaac Cox was an American politician who served as the 29th governor of Tennessee from 1905 to 1907. He was elevated to the position when Governor James B. Frazier resigned,and,as Speaker of the Tennessee Senate,he was the first in the line of succession. He failed to win his party's nomination for a second term,and returned to the state senate,where he remained until 1913. Cox also served as a county judge,city attorney,and local postmaster,and spent two terms in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
The United States District Court for the District of South Carolina is the federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of South Carolina. Court is held in the cities of Aiken,Anderson,Beaufort,Charleston,Columbia,Florence,Greenville,and Spartanburg.
Francis Wilkinson Pickens was a 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.
The Nullifier Party was an American political party based in South Carolina in the 1830s. Considered an early American third party,it was started by John C. Calhoun in 1828.
Franklin Israel Moses Jr. was a South Carolina lawyer and editor who became active as a Republican politician in the state during the Reconstruction Era. He was elected to the legislature in 1868 and as governor in 1872,serving into 1874. Enemies labelled him the 'Robber Governor'.
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.
Events from the year 1827 in the United States.
Patrick Calhoun was the grandson of John C. Calhoun and Floride Calhoun,and the great-grandson of his namesake Patrick Calhoun. He is best known as a railroad baron of the late 19th century,and as the founder of Euclid Heights,Ohio.
John Calhoun Sheppard was the 82nd governor of South Carolina from July 10,1886,to November 30,1886.
Patrick Noble was the 57th Governor of South Carolina from 1838 until his death in 1840.
Old Stone Church is a church building built in 1802. When it was constructed,it was in the Pendleton District,South Carolina. When Pendleton District was divided in 1826,the church was in Pickens District. When Pickens District was split in 1868,it was in Oconee County,South Carolina. In 1968,this section of Oconee County was annexed back to Pickens County. The church is about midway between the centers of Pendleton and Clemson. It is now in the city limits of Clemson.
Waddy Thompson Jr. was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina and U.S. Minister to Mexico,1842–44.
The Clariosophic Society,also known as ΜΣΦ,is a literary society founded in 1806 at the University of South Carolina,then known as South Carolina College,as a result of the splitting in two of the Philomathic Society,which had been formed within weeks of the opening of the college in 1805 and included virtually all students. At what was called the Synapian Convention held in February 1806,the members of Philomathic voted to split into two separate societies,one of which became known as Clariosophic,while the other society became known as Euphradian. Two blood brothers picked the members for the new groups in a manner similar to choosing sides for an impromptu baseball game. John Goodwin became the first president of Clariosophic. Other early presidents include Stephen Elliott,Hugh S. Legaré. George McDuffie and Richard I. Manning. The Society was reactivated in 2013.
The 1992 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 3,1992,to elect the six U.S. representatives from the state of South Carolina,one from each of the state's six congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 1992 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
Ezekiel Pickens was an American lawyer and politician;he served as the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1802 to 1804.
James Pinckney Scales was a lawyer and state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives including as Speaker of the House. He was from a prominent family. He was a Confederate officer during the American Civil War.
