John K. Griffin

John King Griffin (born August 13, 1789 in Clinton , Laurens County , South Carolina , † August 1, 1841 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1831 and 1841 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Griffin received an academic education. He later worked as a planter . At the same time he began a political career. Between 1816 and 1819 he was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives . He then belonged to the State Senate from 1820 to 1824 and again in 1828 . In the late 1820s he joined the short-lived Nullifier Party founded by John C. Calhoun . This campaigned for the strengthening of the rights of the individual states vis-à-vis the federal government. She also believed that states had the right to override federal laws on their territory. In the case of South Carolina, this led to the nullification crisis with the federal government led by President Andrew Jackson . Later, most of the Nullifier Party members, including John Griffin, joined the Democratic Party .

In 1830 Griffin was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of South Carolina , where he succeeded Starling Tucker on March 4, 1831 . After re-election in 1832, he was able to represent this district in Congress until March 3, 1835 . In 1834 he was elected to succeed Robert B. Campbell in the third district . He represented this district first between 1835 and 1837 and then again between 1839 and 1841. During the legislative period between March 4, 1837 and March 1839, he represented the fourth district as the successor to Franklin H. Elmore . Overall, John Griffin completed five consecutive terms in Congress between 1831 and 1841.

Griffin died near his hometown of Clinton just months after the end of his last term.

Web links

• John K. Griffin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John K. Griffin in the database of Find a Grave (English)