Lemuel Benton

Lemuel Benton
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from South Carolina's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1799
Preceded byDaniel Huger
Succeeded byBenjamin Huger
Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from St. David's Parish
In office
January 8, 1782 – November 4, 1788
Personal details
Born1754 (1754)
Granville County, Province of North Carolina, British America
DiedMay 18, 1818(1818-05-18) (aged 63–64)
Darlington, South Carolina, US
Resting placeDarlington County, South Carolina
Political partyAnti-Administration (until 1795)
Other political
affiliations		Democratic-Republican (1795 onward)
Professionlawyer, politician
Military service
Branch/serviceContinental Army
United States Army
Years of service1777–1794
RankColonel
Battles/warsAmerican Revolutionary War

Lemuel Benton (1754 – May 18, 1818) was an 18th-century American slaveholder, planter and politician from Darlington County, South Carolina.[1]

He represented South Carolina in the United States House of Representatives for three terms from 1793 until 1799.

Biography

Benton was born in Granville County, North Carolina, in 1754. In his youth, he moved to what is now known as Darlington County, South Carolina. There, he engaged as a planter and later became a prominent landowner.

Revolutionary War

He served as a major of the Cheraw Regiment in 1777 and served throughout the Revolutionary War, being promoted to the rank of colonel in 1781. He resigned his commission in 1794.

Early political career

He served as a member of the State house of representatives from 1782 to 1788, and as a county court justice of Darlington County in 1785 and 1791. In 1787, he was escheator of Cheraw District (composed of what is now Chesterfield, Darlington, and Marlboro Counties). He was sheriff of Cheraw District in 1789 and 1791.

Delegate to constitutional conventions

He was a delegate to the State convention at Charleston that ratified the Federal Constitution in 1788. He then served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention at Columbia in 1790

Congress

He was elected as an Anti-Administration candidate to the Third Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Fourth and Fifth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1793, to March 3, 1799.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Sixth Congress in 1798.

Later career and death

After leaving Congress, he resumed agricultural pursuits and died in Darlington, Darlington County, South Carolina on May 18, 1818. His interment was on his estate, ``Stony Hill, near Darlington.

References

  1. ^ Weil, Julie Zauzmer (January 10, 2022). "More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation". Washington Post. Retrieved May 5, 2024. Database at "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, January 13, 2022, retrieved April 29, 2024
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Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from South Carolina's 3rd congressional district
1793–1799 		Succeeded by


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