Manuel S. Corley

Manuel Simeon Corley (born February 10, 1823 in Lexington County , South Carolina , † November 20, 1902 in Lexington , South Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1868 and 1869 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Manuel Corley attended Lexington Academy for four years after elementary school before entering business life in 1838. In 1852 he resisted efforts in his home state to leave the Union. As a result, he was almost banished from South Carolina. In 1855 and 1856, he published the South Carolina Temperance Standard newspaper.

During the Civil War , he joined the Confederate States Army in 1863 . Shortly before the end of the war, he was taken prisoner of war near Petersburg ( Virginia ) in early April 1865 . On June 5, 1865, he took the oath of allegiance to the Union. He became a member of the Republican Party and in 1867 attended a conference to revise the South Carolina Constitution. After his state was readmitted to Congress , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the Third Constituency of South Carolina . There he took up his new mandate on July 25, 1868. However, it only ended the legislative period that ran until March 3, 1869.

In 1869 Corley became an employee of the Federal Ministry of Finance. A year later he was working for the state of South Carolina. He was commissioned to compile agricultural statistics. He held his last political office in 1874 as a chamberlain in Lexington County. Manuel Corley died in Lexington on November 20, 1902.

Web links

• Manuel S. Corley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Manuel S. Corley in the database of Find a Grave (English)