Joseph Gist

Joseph Gist (born January 12, 1775 in Union County , Province of South Carolina , † March 8, 1836 in Pinckneyville , South Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1821 and 1827 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1788 Joseph Gist moved to Charleston with his parents . There he attended public schools. He also studied at the College of Charleston . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1799, he began to practice in Pinckneyville in his new profession. Politically, Gist became a member of the Democratic Republican Party . Between 1802 and 1817 he was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives . From 1809 to 1821 he was also the curator of South Carolina College , later the University of South Carolina .

In 1820 Gist was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of South Carolina , where he succeeded John McCreary on March 4, 1821 . In the following elections in 1822, he ran in the seventh district. There he was re-elected to Congress as the successor to John Wilson . After further confirmation in 1824, he was able to complete a total of three legislative periods in the House of Representatives by March 3, 1827. During this time his party split into two wings. Gist joined the parliamentary group around the future President Andrew Jackson , from which the Democratic Party emerged in 1828 . During his tenure in Congress there were particularly violent clashes between supporters of his faction and those of President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay .

Joseph Gist renounced another candidacy in 1826. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He died in Pinckneyville on March 8, 1836.

Web links

• Joseph Gist in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Joseph Gist in the database of Find a Grave (English)