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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 scandal "derailed his political career" for a decade to come after Wade Hampton III publicly accused him in 1843 when Hammond was governor. [15] He was "ostracized by polite society" for some time, but in the late 1850s, he was nonetheless elected by the state legislature as a U.S. senator. [16]
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.
By suppressing the black majority in Edgefield County and election fraud (2,000 more votes were counted than the total number of registered voters in the county), the Democrats elected Wade Hampton III as the Democratic candidate by a narrow margin of slightly more than 1100 votes statewide. They also carried the state legislature.
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.
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 ...
Statue of Wade Hampton (lawn of the South Carolina Statehouse) A provision in the South Carolina Constitution of 1868 required the General Assembly to elect the governor in the event of a disputed election. On December 6, the Republican General Assembly, claiming a majority because the votes of Edgefield and Laurens counties had been excluded ...