W. Jasper Talbert

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William Jasper Talbert (born October 6, 1846 in Edgefield , South Carolina , † February 5, 1931 in Greenwood , South Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1903 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jasper Talbert attended public schools in Greenwood and the Due West Academy in Abbeville . He then graduated from Erskine College . In the final stages of the civil war , he was a soldier in the Confederate States Army from September 1864 . After the war, he worked in agriculture near Parksville .

Talbert was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1880 and 1883 he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina ; from 1884 to 1888 he was a member of the State Senate . He then headed the South Carolina State Penitentiary from 1891 to 1893. In 1892 Talbert was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where ex-US President Grover Cleveland was again nominated as a presidential candidate. Talbert also held various positions in the Farmers' Alliance .

In 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the Second Constituency of South Carolina . There he took over from George D. Tillman on March 4, 1893 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1903 . During this time the Spanish-American War of 1898 fell . At that time the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Philippines came under American administration. During his tenure as a congressman, Talbert was also Mayor of Parksville from 1895 to 1900. In 1899 he was president of the regional Democratic Party Congress in South Carolina.

In 1902 Talbert renounced another candidacy for Congress. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought nominations for the upcoming gubernatorial elections . He then retired from politics and returned to farming near Parksville. In 1927 he moved to McCormick , where he spent his old age. Jasper Talbert died in Greenwood on February 5, 1931 and was buried in Parksville.

Web links

  • W. Jasper Talbert in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Talbert, W. Jasper
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Talbert, William Jasper (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH near Edgefield , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1931
Place of death Greenwood , South Carolina