Ezekiel Pickens

Ezekiel Pickens (born March 30, 1768 in Abbeville County , Province of South Carolina , †  May 23, 1818 in Pendleton , South Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1802 and 1804 he was lieutenant governor of the state of South Carolina.

Career

Ezekiel Pickens was the son of General Andrew Pickens (1739-1817), who was, among other things, Congressman for South Carolina. His brother Andrew Pickens Jr. (1779-1838) was the governor of South Carolina. Whose son and nephew of Ezekiel was Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805-1869), who was also governor of South Carolina from 1860 to 1862, which then left the Union to join the Confederate States .

Pickens grew up on his father's plantation and then studied at Harvard University . He later embarked on a political career. He joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In 1802 he was elected lieutenant governor of his state by the South Carolina General Assembly alongside James Burchill Richardson . He held this office between December 8, 1802 and December 7, 1804. He was Deputy Governor. After his time as Lieutenant Governor, he was no longer politically active. He died on May 23, 1818 (according to other sources, 1813) in Pendleton.

Web links

• Family tree at My Southern Family

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ according to other sources 1813
2. ↑ Gen. Andrew Pickens (b.September 19, 1739; d. August 11, 1817)
3. ^ William R. Reynolds, Jr .: Andrew Pickens: South Carolina Patriot in the Revolutionary War . McFarland, 2012, ISBN 978-0-7864-6694-8 , pp. 304 ( full text in Google Book Search).