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Martin Frederick Ansel | |
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89th Governor of South Carolina | |
In office January 15, 1907 –January 17, 1911 | |
Lieutenant | Thomas Gordon McLeod |
Preceded by | Duncan Clinch Heyward |
Succeeded by | Coleman Livingston Blease |
Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Greenville County | |
In office November 28,1882 – November 27,1888 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Martin Frederick Ansel December 12,1850 Charleston,South Carolina,US |
Died | August 23,1945 94) Greenville,South Carolina,US | (aged
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Ophelia Anne Speights Addie Hollingsworth Harris |
Children | 3 |
Profession | Lawyer,politician |
Martin Frederick Ansel (December 12,1850 –August 23,1945) was the 89th governor of South Carolina from 1907 to 1911.
Born in Charleston,South Carolina,to John Ansel who was an immigrant from Württemberg in Germany and Fredrika Bowers,also a German immigrant,Martin grew up in the German "colony" of Walhalla,South Carolina. He was admitted to the bar in 1870,first practicing law in Franklin,North Carolina,for four years,then in Greenville,South Carolina,where he became involved in politics. He served in the state legislature between 1882 and 1888,then was elected solicitor in the eighth Judicial Circuit,where he stayed until 1901. [1]
He explored a run for governor in 1902,but did not actually run until 1906. He was re-elected in 1908. During his term,statewide prohibition was established. [2] [3]
He was first married to Ophelia Anne Speights,daughter of A.M. Speights,founder of The Greenville News ,with whom he had two daughters and a son,but who died in 1894,then to Addie Hollingsworth Harris,who died in 1937. [4] One of his daughters,Frederica,christened the battleship USS South Carolina (BB-26) in 1908.
He served as an elder at First Presbyterian church of Greenville. [2] He was interred in Springwood Cemetery in Greenville.
Wade Hampton III was the scion of one of the richest families in the ante-bellum South,owning thousands of acres of cotton land in South Carolina and Mississippi,as well as thousands of enslaved workers. He became a senior general in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. He also had a career as a leading Democratic politician in state and national affairs.
Edward Fitzsimmons Dunne was an American politician,lawyer,and jurist who was the 38th mayor of Chicago from 1905 to 1907 and the 24th Governor of Illinois from 1913 to 1917. Dunne is the only person to be elected both Mayor of Chicago and Governor of Illinois. He also served as a judge of the Illinois circuit court for Cook County from 1892 to 1905.
John Hollis Bankhead was an American politician and Confederate Army soldier. A member of the Democratic Party,Bankhead served as U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama from 1907 until his death in 1920. Bankhead had additionally served in the United States House of Representatives,the Alabama Legislature,and as warden of the state penitentiary in Wetumpka.
Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr.,was an American Republican politician who served as the 112th governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995. Prior to this,he served as a member of the South Carolina Senate representing the 2nd district from 1977 to 1978 and as a congressman representing South Carolina's 4th district from 1979 to 1987.
Norman Jay Colman was a politician,attorney,educator,newspaper publisher,and,for 18 days,the first United States secretary of agriculture.
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.
Nick Andrew Theodore is a former American politician from South Carolina. He was the first Greek-American elected to the South Carolina State Legislature. He served as a state representative from 1963 to 1966 and 1970 to 1978,a South Carolina state senator from 1967 to 1968 and from 1981 to 1986,and the 85th lieutenant governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Charles Aurelius Smith was the 91st governor of South Carolina from January 14 to January 19,1915. His term of five days stands as the shortest for any governor in South Carolina.
The 1906 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 6,1906,to select the governor of the state of South Carolina,United States. Martin Frederick Ansel won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to become the 89th governor of South Carolina.
The 1908 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1908,to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Governor Martin Frederick Ansel faced state senator Coleman Livingston Blease in the Democratic primary and emerged victorious to win a second two-year term as governor.
William Pierce Price was a politician who served in the United States House of Representatives. Price was born in Dahlonega,Georgia.
Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. was a U.S. representative from South Carolina.
Fletcher Dutton Proctor was an American businessman,a Republican politician,and the 51st governor of Vermont,who served from 1906 to 1908.
William Lawrence Laval was an American minor league baseball player,baseball manager,and college baseball,football,and basketball coach. He held head coaching positions at the University of South Carolina,Furman University,Emory and Henry College,and Newberry College. He is the only South Carolina football coach to have produced seven consecutive winning seasons. In 2009,The State called him "the greatest collegiate coach" in the history of South Carolina.
Springwood Cemetery is an American historic cemetery in Greenville,South Carolina,listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is the oldest municipal cemetery in the state and has approximately 7,700 marked,and 2,600 unmarked,graves.
John Frederick Ficken Jr. (1843–1925) was the forty-eighth mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,completing one term from 1891 to 1895. Ficken was born on June 16,1843,in Charleston to Prussian immigrants John Frederick Ficken Sr.,and Rebecca (Beversen) Ficken. He enrolled in the College of Charleston,but he joined the Confederate military at the outbreak of the Civil War. Ficken was given leave from active duty to complete his college education;he received an A.B. degree in 1864 and rejoined active duty. After the war ended,he began practicing law in Charleston and travelled to Germany for a year in 1869 to study civil law at the University of Berlin. From 1877 to December 1891,when he assumed the mayorship of Charleston,Ficken served in the South Carolina statehouse as a representative. He did not stand for re-election in 1891. During his tenure as mayor,Ficken lived at 74 Rutledge Ave. In 1902,he became president of the South Carolina Loan &Trust Co.
Franklin v. South Carolina,218 U.S. 161 (1910) appealed the conviction of Pink Franklin for the murder of South Carolina Constable Henry H. Valentine in 1907. Franklin was a sharecropper who wished to leave his employer although his employer had advanced Franklin wages under a contract based on the so-called "peonage laws". A warrant was obtained and when Valentine came to the house,a shootout occurred,killing Valentine and injuring Franklin,his wife Patsy,and another constable who was there. The defense included claims that Franklin acted in self-defense and that the peonage laws were unjust. In appeal,the defense claimed that the make-up of the jury,all white based on the requirement that the jury be based on those who were eligible to vote,was based on unconstitutional racism in election laws stemming from the 1895 South Carolina constitution. Franklin's conviction was upheld in all appeals,including the appeal before the United States Supreme Court heard in April 1910.
William Lawrence Mauldin was a South Carolina politician and railroad executive. He served as mayor of Greenville,in the South Carolina House of Representatives,South Carolina Senate,and was Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. The University of North Carolina has a collection of his papers.
Petra Fitzalieu Pinn was an American nurse and hospital administrator,and president of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN) in 1923 and 1924.