Daniel Huger

Daniel Huger

Daniel Huger (born February 20, 1742 in Berkeley County , Province of South Carolina , †  July 6, 1799 in Charleston , South Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1789 and 1793 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Daniel Huger was born on the Limerick plantation and received a private education there. He later attended public schools in Charleston. In the meantime he studied in what was then the mother country of England . Between 1773 and 1775 he was a member of the colonial House of Representatives. In 1775 he also worked as a justice of the peace in his homeland. In the following years, Huger began a political career in South Carolina. From 1778 to 1780 he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina . In 1780 he was a member of the government council of his state; from 1786 to 1788 Huger sat in the continental congress . He was a proponent of the government policies of President George Washington and Alexander Hamilton on the pro-administration group.

In the elections to the first congressional in 1788, Daniel Huger was elected to the US House of Representatives in the third constituency of South Carolina. There he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. After re-election in 1790, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1793 . After the end of his time in the House of Representatives, Huger retired to his "Wateree" plantation. From there he administered his now extensive lands. He died on July 6, 1799 in Charleston and was buried there. His son Daniel (1779-1854) was from 1843 to 1845 US Senator for South Carolina.

Web links

• Daniel Huger in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Daniel Huger in the database of Find a Grave (English)