Edmund William McGregor Mackey

Edmund William McGregor Mackey

Edmund William McGregor Mackey (born March 8, 1846 in Charleston , South Carolina , †  January 27, 1884 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1876 and again from 1882 to 1884 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After a good primary education, Mackey was hired by the South Carolina Tax Department in 1865. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . In 1868 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the state constitution of South Carolina. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1868, he began working in his new profession in Charleston.

He was also a sheriff in Charleston County between 1868 and 1872 . At that time he was a member of the Charleston City Council. There he published the newspaper "Charleston Republican" in 1871 and 1872. In 1873 he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina . In 1874, Mackey was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington as an independent Republican in the Second Constituency of South Carolina. There he took over from Alonzo J. Ransier on March 4, 1875 . On 19 July 1876 his office was following an election appeal by Charles W. Buttz by the Congress declared vacant. In the subsequent by-election, Buttz was then elected to Congress.

In 1877, Mackey was an MP and President of the South Carolina House of Representatives. During this time there were domestic political unrest. There were violent clashes, combined with electoral fraud, between supporters of the Republican and Democratic parties . At times, federal troops had to guard the parliament building. The Republican MPs had withdrawn there.

In 1872 and 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions , at which Ulysses S. Grant and later James A. Garfield were nominated as presidential candidates. From 1878 to 1881 Mackey was the assistant federal attorney for South Carolina. In 1878 he ran unsuccessfully for his return to Congress. The election was won by Michael P. O'Connor , who was confirmed in 1880. Mackey appealed against this election. In the meantime O'Connor passed away and Samuel Dibble was elected as his successor. After Mackey's original protest was upheld, he was able to take over from Dibble. Between May 31, 1882 and March 3, 1883 he ended the legislative term that had begun for the second district of South Carolina. In the elections of 1882 he was re-elected to Congress in the re-established Seventh District. On March 4, 1883, he took up his mandate there. There he served until his death on January 27, 1884. Thus Mackey was elected three times to Congress, but could not serve a full term there.

Web links

• Edmund William McGregor Mackey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edmund William McGregor Mackey in the database of Find a Grave (English)