James Ladson

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James Ladson

James Henry Ladson (born July 25, 1753 in Charleston , Province of South Carolina , †  January 28, 1812 ibid) was an American politician , officer during the American Revolutionary War and plantation owner. Between 1792 and 1794 he was lieutenant governor of the state of South Carolina and from 1800 to 1804 a member of the state Senate.

Career

His daughter Sarah Reeve Ladson; "She visually referred to the taste of the slaves"

James Ladson was born in 1753 to a prominent South Carolina family of English descent. He was the son of William Ladson and Anne Gibbes; his mother was the daughter of Colonel John Gibbes and the granddaughter of Governor Robert Gibbes. In 1773 he traveled to England to continue his education and returned to South Carolina the following year. He owned a plantation in St. Andrew Parish and a plantation called Fawn Hill on the Santeee River, and a house and other lots in Charleston. In 1788 he owned 142 slaves.

He joined the revolutionary movement in the early 1770s . During the War of Independence he was a captain in the Continental Army . He later embarked on a political career that led him to both houses of the South Carolina General Assembly . In the late 1780s he took part as a delegate to the convention that ratified the United States Constitution for the state of South Carolina .

In 1792 Ladson was elected lieutenant governor of South Carolina by the state legislature alongside William Moultrie . He held this office between December 5, 1792 and December 17, 1794. He was Deputy Governor . Politically, he joined the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton . After his time as Lieutenant Governor, he was a member of the Parliament ( Assembly ) from 1798 and a member of the State Senate from 1800 to 1804. He died on January 28, 1812 in Charleston, where he was also buried.

In 1778 he married Judith Smith, daughter of the wealthy banker, politician and slave trader Benjamin Smith (1717–1770) and descendant of Governor Thomas Smith.

His son James H. Ladson (1795–1868) was a large plantation owner and by 1850 owned around 200 slaves. Among the latter's descendants were Mary Ladson Robertson, Ursula von der Leyen's great-grandmother ; she is also the descendant of his sister Elizabeth Ladson and by adoption of her sister Sarah Ladson; von der Leyen lived briefly under the pseudonym Rose Ladson.

The listed James Ladson House in Charleston was built for him around 1792; In 1895 Ladson Street was named after him there.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maurie D. McInnis, The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston , p. 14, UNC Press Books, 2015, ISBN 9781469625997
  2. ↑ a b Biographical Directory of the South Carolina Senate, 1776-1985 , vol. 2, p. 881, University of South Carolina Press, 1986, ISBN 9780872494800
  3. ^ We the People: The Economic Origins of the Constitution
  4. ^ The history of Georgetown County, South Carolina , p. 297, University of South Carolina Press, 1970
  5. ^ Register of the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina, p. 35, The Society, 1945
  6. ↑ German Gender Book , Vol. 187, p. 43
  7. ^ "Lived more than studied" , Die Welt, June 20, 2016
  8. ↑ James Ladson House

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personal data
SURNAME Ladson, James
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ladson, James Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1753
PLACE OF BIRTH Charleston , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1812
Place of death Charleston , South Carolina