John L. McLaurin

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John L. McLaurin

John Lowndes McLaurin (born May 9, 1860 in Red Bluff , Marlboro County , South Carolina , †  July 29, 1934 in Bennettsville , South Carolina) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of South Carolina in both chambers of the Congress represented.

After attending school in Bennettsville and Englewood ( New Jersey ), John McLaurin continued his education first at a military academy near Warrenton ( Virginia ) and later at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania . After graduating from the Carolina Military Institute he studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville the law , was admitted to the bar in 1883 and began practicing in Bennettsville.

McLaurin was politically active for the first time in 1890, when he became a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina ; the following year he took over the post of Attorney General of South Carolina and held this until 1897. After the death of Congressman Eli T. Stackhouse , McLaurin won the by-election for his seat in the US House of Representatives , into which he moved on December 5, 1892. He also won the following three elections and remained there until his resignation on May 31, 1897. The next day he moved within Congress to the Senate ; there he had been appointed to succeed the late Joseph H. Earle . He also won the by-election, so he kept the Senate seat until March 3, 1903; he did not run for another election. McLaurin was officially reprimanded on February 22, 1902, because of an argument with Benjamin Tillman , the other Senator from South Carolina.

After his time in Congress, McLaurin moved to New York City , where he returned to working as a lawyer. He later returned to Bennettsville and worked there in agriculture; he was also once again politically active and sat from 1914 to 1915 in the Senate of South Carolina . From 1915 until his resignation in 1917, he held the post of commissioner for state warehouses; after that he retired near Bennettsville.

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  • John L. McLaurin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME McLaurin, John L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McLaurin, John Lowndes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Red Bluff , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1934
Place of death near Bennettsville , South Carolina