Notable Dillonites
 

Statesmen |

Dillon Statesmen

  • ALLEN, David Smith
    South Carolina State Senate 1946-1950

  • BETHEA, Preston Lang
    South Carolina State Senate 1918-1922

  • HAMER, James Willis
    South Carolina State Senate 1930-1938

  • MANNING, James Douglass
    South Carolina State Senate 1938-1946

  • MANNING, James Haselden
    South Carolina State Senate 1910-1918

  • ROGERS, Robert Stonewall
    South Carolina State Senate 1922-1930

  • STACKHOUSE, Eli Thomas (1824-1892)
    Born in Little Rock, Marion County, S.C., March 27, 1824; attended the common schools; worked on his father’s farm; taught school for several years; later engaged in agricultural pursuits; enlisted in the Confederate Army January 9, 1861, and served throughout the Civil War, attaining the rank of colonel of the Eighth Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers; member of the State house of representatives 1863, 1865-1866; member of the first board of trustees of Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina in 1887; first president of the South Carolina State Farmers’ Alliance in 1888; elected as a Democrat from South Carolina 6th District to the Fifty-second Congress and served from March 4, 1891, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 14, 1892. Buried at Little Rock Cemetery.
    Source: Congressional biography

Last revised 30 March 2002.

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