Joseph H. Earle

Joseph H. Earle

Joseph Haynsworth Earle (born April 30, 1847 in Greenville , South Carolina , †  May 20, 1897 ibid) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of South Carolina in the US Senate .

Joseph Earle, great-grandson of Congressman Elias Earle , attended private schools in Sumter when he was young . He then enrolled at the South Carolina Military Academy in Charleston , now the Citadel , where he had just completed his freshman year as a cadet when the Northern and Southern Civil War broke out. Earle joined the Confederation Army , which ultimately lost the war.

After the war, Earle continued his education at Furman University in Greenville, where he graduated in 1867. He then worked as a teacher for two years before he was admitted to the bar in 1870 after successfully studying law and began to practice in Anderson . In 1875 he settled as a lawyer in Sumter, where he also worked in the timber business and in agriculture.

Earle was politically active for the first time as a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina , to which he was a member from 1878 to 1882; afterwards he sat in the State Senate until 1886 . Between 1886 and 1890 he served as Attorney General of South Carolina. He once turned down the nomination as governor of his state, before applying for this post in 1890 in vain. In 1892 he returned to Greenville; two years later he was elected district judge. Finally, in 1896, he won the election as a US Senator. In Washington, DC , he succeeded his cousin John LM Irby on March 4, 1897 , but Earle died just two and a half months after he took office on May 20, 1897 in Greenville. He was also buried there.

Web links

• Joseph H. Earle in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph H. Earle in the database of Find a Grave (English)