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it is my research, much of it has been shared with me.
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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Name: Langdon Cheves Note
Born: 14 May 1848 at South Carolina
Married:
Died: 31 Dec 1939
Father: Charles Manly Cheves
Mother: Isabella Middleton
WIFE
Name: Sophia Lovell Haskell
Born: Abt 1850
Died: at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina
CHILDREN
NOTES
1). CHEVES, Langdon, a Representative from South Carolina bor n September 17, 1776, in Bulltown Fort, near Rocky River, N inety sixth District now Abbeville County , S.C., where th e settlers had taken refuge from the onslaught of the Chero kee Indians received his early education at his home and A ndrew Weed?s School near Abbeville, S.C. joined his fathe r in Charleston, S.C., in 1786 and continued his schoolin g in that city studied law was admitted to the bar Octobe r 14, 1797, and commenced practice in Charleston city alde rman in 1802 member of the State house of representative s 1802 1804 and 1806 1808 elected attorney general of th e State in 1808 elected as a Republican to the Eleventh Co ngress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Rob ert Marion, having previously been elected to the Twelfth C ongress reelected to the Thirteenth Congress, and served f rom December 31, 1810, to March 3, 1815 succeeded Henry Cl ay as Speaker of the House of Representatives during the se cond session of the Thirteenth Congresschairman, Committe e on Ways and Means Twelfth Congress, Committee on the Na val Establishment Twelfth Congressdeclined to be a cand idate for reelection in 1814 to the Fourteenth Congress an d also the position of Secretary of the Treasury tendered b y President Madison resumed the practice of law elected a ssociate justice of law and appeal in December 1816 resign ed in 1819 declined to accept an appointment as Associat e Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States electe d president of the Bank of the United States March 6, 1819 , and held this office until 1822, when he resigned chie f commissioner of claims under the treaty of Ghent reside d in Philadelphia and Washington 1819 1826 and in Lancaster , Pa., 1826 1829 returned to South Carolina in 1829 engag ed extensively in the cultivation of rice in South Carolin a and Georgia tendered an appointment by the Governor of S outh Carolina to the United States Senate to fill the vacan cy caused by the death of John C. Calhoun, but declined de legate to the Southern convention at Nashville, Tenn., in 1 850 and to the State convention at Columbia, S.C., in 1852 died in Columbia, S.C., June 26, 1857 interment in Magno lia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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