Person:Wade Hampton (6)
Wade Hampton, III
b.28 Mar 1818 Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
d.11 Apr 1902 Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States
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  1. Wade Hampton, III1818 - 1902
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Name Wade Hampton, III
Gender Male
Birth[1] 28 Mar 1818 Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Marriage to Margaret Buchanan Frances Preston
Death[1] 11 Apr 1902 Columbia, Richland, South Carolina, United States
Reference Number? Q881227?


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Wade Hampton III (March 28, 1818April 11, 1902) was an American military officer who served the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War and later a politician from South Carolina. He came from a wealthy planter family, and shortly before the war he was one of the largest slaveholders in the Southeast as well as a state legislator. During the American Civil War, he served in the Confederate cavalry, where he reached the rank of lieutenant general.

At the end of Reconstruction, with the withdrawal of federal troops from the state, Hampton was leader of the Redeemers who restored white rule. His campaign for governor was marked by extensive violence by the Red Shirts, a paramilitary group that served the Democratic Party by disrupting elections and suppressing black and Republican voting in the state. He was elected Governor, serving 1876 to 1879. After that, he served two terms as U.S. Senator, from 1879 to 1891.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wade Hampton III, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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