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(Redirected from John L. Manning) American politician
John Lawrence Manning
United States Senator-elect
from South Carolina
In office
Not seated
Preceded byJames Chesnut
James Hammond
Succeeded byThomas Robertson
Frederick Sawyer
Governor of South Carolina
In office
December 9, 1852 – December 11, 1854
LieutenantJames Irby
Preceded byJohn Means
Succeeded byJames Adams
Personal details
BornJohn Lawrence Manning
(1816-01-29)January 29, 1816
Clarendon County, South Carolina, U.S.
DiedOctober 24, 1889(1889-10-24) (aged 73)
Camden, South Carolina, U.S.
Resting placeTrinity Episcopal Cathedral
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)Susan Frances Hampton
Sally Bland Clarke
EducationPrinceton University
University of South Carolina (BA)
Military service
Allegiance Confederate States
Branch/serviceConfederate States Army
RankColonel
Battles/warsAmerican Civil War

John Lawrence Manning (sometimes spelled John Laurence Manning) (January 29, 1816 – October 24, 1889) was the 65th Governor of South Carolina, from 1854 to 1856, and, though elected to the U.S. Senate in 1865, was refused a seat there because of his former Confederate allegiance.

Background and career

He was born in Clarendon County, son of Richard Irvine Manning and Elizabeth Peyer (Richardson) Manning. His father was the Governor of South Carolina from 1824 to 1826. John Manning attended Princeton University and obtained a degree from South Carolina College, where he was a member of the Euphradian Society. A Democrat, he was a meber of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1842 to 1846 and of the South Carolina Senate from 1846 to 1852. After his single term as governor, the state constitution made him ineligible for immediate re-election. He was a signer of South Carolina's ordinance of secession in 1860. During the American Civil War, while serving again in the South Carolina Senate from 1861 to 1865, Manning was also a colonel on the staff of P.G.T. Beauregard, a Confederate general. In 1865, after the war, the state General Assembly elected him to the United States Senate but, because of his prominent role in South Carolina's secession and the ensuing war, the Senate refused him a seat. He served again in the state house of representatives from 1865 to 1867 and, after the withdrawal of Union troops, in the state senate from 1877 to '78.

In an elite planter society that prided itself on its social grace, Manning was noted for his appealing appearance and demeanor, which possessed one observer to ask, "Who that has ever met him can be indifferent to the charms of manner and of personal appearance, which render the ex-Governor of the state so attractive?" In her famous diary, Mary Chesnut called Manning "the handsomest man alive."

Marriages and children

In 1838, John L. Manning married Susan Frances Hampton (1816–1845), daughter of General Wade Hampton I and his wife, Mary Cantey, and half-sister of Colonel Wade Hampton II, who though he alone inherited their father's considerable fortune, shared it equally with her and another sister. She died giving birth to their third child. In 1848 Manning married Sally Bland Clarke and had four children by her. During his term in office, he resided at the Preston C. Lorick House.

Millford Plantation

John Manning and his wife, Susan, had Millford Plantation built in 1839 near Pinewood, South Carolina. It is now a National Historic Landmark.

Slave owner

According to the 1860 United States Slave Census Schedule, John Manning owned 670 enslaved African-Americans, making him the 6th largest American slave owner at the time.

Burial

He is interred in the churchyard at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia, South Carolina.

Honors

The town of Manning, South Carolina was named for him.

References

  1. "South Carolina SC - John Lawrence Manning - 1852 - 1854". SCIway.net. Retrieved 2007-09-22.
  2. Robert Sobel and John Raimo, eds., Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, Vol.IV, pp.1408-1409 (Westport, Connecticut: Meckler Books, 1978).
  3. William Howard Russell, My Diary North and South, Vol.1, p.141 (London: Bradbury and Evans 1863).
  4. C. Vann Woodward, ed., Mary Chesnut's Civil War, p.35 (New York: Book of the Month Club 1994).
  5. ^ Smith, Thomas Gordon, Living with antiques: Millford Plantation in South Carolina, Antiques Magazine, May, 1997 Archived 2007-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
  6. "Preston C. Lorick House, Richland County (1727 Hampton St., Columbia)". National Register Properties in South Carolina. South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2014-01-07.
  7. *"American slave owners". Geni. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  8. Names in the Old Sumter District

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Political offices
Preceded byJohn Means Governor of South Carolina
1852–1854 		Succeeded byJames Adams
U.S. Senate
Preceded byJames Chesnut
James Hammond 		U.S. Senator-elect from South Carolina
1866
Served alongside: Benjamin Perry (elect) 		Succeeded byThomas Robertson
Frederick Sawyer
Governors of South Carolina


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