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Edward Clarkson Leverette Adams (1876-1946) —
also known as Ned Adams —
Born in Richland
County, S.C., January
5, 1876.
Physician;
farmer;
author; candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1916, 1922; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I.
Died in Richland
County, S.C., November
1, 1946 (age 70 years, 300
days).
Interment somewhere
in Richland County, S.C.
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John Drayton (1766-1822) —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., June 22,
1766.
Lawyer;
author; botanist;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1792-96, 1798, 1802-04;
Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1798-1800; Governor of
South Carolina, 1800-02, 1808-10; intendant
of Charleston, South Carolina, 1803-04; member of South
Carolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1805-08; U.S.
District Judge for South Carolina, 1812-22.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., November
27, 1822 (age 56 years, 158
days).
Interment at Cathedral Church of St. Luke and St. Paul, Charleston, S.C.
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Joseph Earle Jacobs (1893-1971) —
also known as Joseph E. Jacobs —
of Johnston, Edgefield
County, S.C.; Boca Raton, Palm Beach
County, Fla.
Born in Johnston, Edgefield
County, S.C., October
31, 1893.
Interpreter; Foreign Service officer; U.S. Vice Consul in Foochow, 1917-18; Shanghai, 1918-19; U.S. Consul in Shanghai, as of 1924, as of 1928-30; Yunnanfu, 1926-28; U.S. Consul General in Cairo, as of 1943; U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, 1948-49; Poland, 1955-57.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
5, 1971 (age 77 years, 66
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) —
also known as Ann Clare Boothe; Clare Boothe
Brokaw —
of Greenwich, Fairfield
County, Conn.; Ridgefield, Fairfield
County, Conn.
Born in New York, New York
County, N.Y., April
10, 1903.
Republican. Writer; journalist;
playwright; U.S.
Representative from Connecticut 4th District, 1943-47; delegate
to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1944,
1948
(speaker),
1952;
U.S. Ambassador to Italy, 1953-56.
Female.
Catholic.
Received the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1983.
Died, from a brain
tumor, in Washington,
D.C., October
9, 1987 (age 84 years, 182
days).
Interment at Mepkin
Abbey, Moncks Corner, S.C.
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David Ramsay (1749-1815) —
of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston
County), S.C.
Born in Lancaster
County, Pa., April 2,
1749.
Physician;
author; served in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from South Carolina, 1782-83, 1785-86;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from St. Philip & St.
Michael, 1783-90; member of South
Carolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1790-1800.
Shot
and mortally
wounded by a crazed patient, and died two days later, in
Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., May 8,
1815 (age 66 years, 36
days).
Interment at Circular
Congregational Church Burying Ground, Charleston, S.C.
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Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook (1792-1855) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Edisto Island, Charleston
County, S.C., June 30,
1792.
Democrat. Planter; lawyer;
author; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1814-25; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1826-34; Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1834-36; Governor of
South Carolina, 1848-50.
Episcopalian.
Died in Beaufort, Beaufort District (now Beaufort
County), S.C., April
16, 1855 (age 62 years, 290
days).
Interment at Gunbluff
Plantation Cemetery, Edisto Island, S.C.
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