Thomas Sumter junior

Thomas Sumter Jr. (born August 30, 1768 in Stateburg , Sumter County , Province of South Carolina , †  June 15, 1840 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1804 and 1806 he was lieutenant governor of the state of South Carolina .

Career

Thomas Sumter was the son of the same name Thomas Sumter Sr. (1734-1832), general in the Revolutionary War , who then represented the State of South Carolina in both chambers of Congress . Nothing is known about his youth and school education. Politically, he joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In 1800 he became private secretary to the American Ambassador to France, Robert R. Livingston . President Jefferson offered Sumter the office of governor in the newly acquired Louisiana Territory in 1803 , but the latter declined.

In 1804, Sumter was elected lieutenant governor of his state by the South Carolina General Assembly alongside Paul Hamilton . He held this office between December 7, 1804 and December 9, 1806. He was Deputy Governor. He was also active in the state militia, in which he made it to the rank of colonel. He commanded a regiment once set up by his father. Between 1809 and 1819 Sumter was the American envoy to Brazil . He then returned to South Carolina. He died on June 15, 1840. His son Thomas De Lage Sumter (1809–1874) was a Congressman in Washington, DC between 1839 and 1843

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• Thomas Sumter junior in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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