biography
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1776–1857)
|
| biography:
| US representative, born in Rocky River, South Carolina, USA. Educated at home, he became a lawyer in Charleston in 1797. He was the South Carolina attorney general (1808–10) before being appointed to the US House of Representatives (1810–15), and succeeded Henry Clay as Republican Speaker of the House (1812–15). He declined cabinet and Supreme Court appointments to become president of the Bank of the United States (1819–22), returning to South Carolina to cultivate rice in 1829. |
|
|
