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Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Milledge Luke Bonham (1813-1890) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Saluda, Edgefield District (now Saluda
County), S.C., December
25, 1813.
Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Edgefield, 1840-44,
1865-66; colonel in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1857-60; general
in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; Representative
from South Carolina in the Confederate Congress, 1862; Governor of
South Carolina, 1862-64.
Slaveowner.
Died in White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier
County, W.Va., August
27, 1890 (age 76 years, 245
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.
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Preston Smith Brooks (1819-1857) —
also known as Preston S. Brooks —
of Ninety Six, Edgefield District (now Greenwood
County), S.C.
Born in Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., August
5, 1819.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1844; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1853-56,
1856-57; died in office 1857.
Suffered a hip wound in a duel
with Louis
T. Wigfall, 1839, and could walk only with
a cane for the rest of his life. In May, 1856, furious over an
anti-slavery speech, he went to the Senate and beat
Senator Charles
Sumner with a cane, causing severe
injuries; an attempt to expel
him from Congress failed for lack of the necessary two-thirds vote,
but he resigned;
re-elected to his own vacancy.
Slaveowner.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
27, 1857 (age 37 years, 175
days).
Interment at Willow
Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C.; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Milledge Lipscomb Bonham (b. 1854) —
also known as M. L. Bonham —
of Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C.
Born in Edgefield, Edgefield District (now Edgefield
County), S.C., October
16, 1854.
Democrat. Lawyer; Adjutant
General of South Carolina, 1885-90; circuit judge in South
Carolina, 1924-30; justice of
South Carolina state supreme court, 1931-40; appointed 1931; chief
justice of South Carolina state supreme court, 1940.
Episcopalian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati; Sons of
the American Revolution; Sons
of Confederate Veterans; Knights
of Pythias; Lions.
Burial location unknown.
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