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Wade Hampton III (March 28, 1818 – April 11, 1902) 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 slaves.
The Bloody South Carolina Election of 1876: Wade Hampton III, the Red Shirt Campaign for Governor and the End of Reconstruction (McFarland, 2010); the author is unaware of recent scholarship on Reconstruction and, "The result is a book that is at best uneven and at worst untrustworthy," says historian Randall Miller in Civil War Book Review ...
The governor of South Carolina is the head of government of South Carolina and serves as commander-in-chief of the U.S. state's military ... Wade Hampton III (1818 ...
James Henry Hammond (1807–1864), U.S. Senator and South Carolina governor, defender of slavery, and owner of more than 300 slaves. [137] Wade Hampton I (c. 1752 – 1835), American general, Congressman, and planter. One of the largest slave-holders in the country, he was alleged to have conducted experiments on the people he enslaved.
Owned by Colonel Wade Hampton II and his wife Ann Fitzsimmons Hampton, it was the boyhood home of their first son Wade Hampton III and other children. He later became a Confederate general and later, South Carolina governor, and U.S. Senator. After the death of Wade Hampton II in 1858, the house was inherited by his four unmarried daughters.
Wade Hampton III. The 1878 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1878, to select the governor of South Carolina. Wade Hampton III was renominated by the Democrats and ran against no organized opposition in the general election to win reelection for a second two-year term.
Wade Hampton II (April 21, 1791 – February 10, 1858) was a United States Army officer, planter and politician who served in the War of 1812. He was a member of the Hampton family , whose influence was strong in South Carolina politics and social circles for nearly 100 years.
Wade Hampton (c. 1750 – February 4, 1835) was an American military officer, planter and politician. A two-term U.S. congressman, he may have been the wealthiest planter , and one of the largest slave holders in the United States, at the time of his death.