William Mauldin

William Lawrence Mauldin (born June 13, 1845 in Greenville , South Carolina , †  August 13, 1912 there ) was an American politician . Between 1886 and 1890 he was lieutenant governor of the state of South Carolina.

Career

William Mauldin attended Col. Stephen Lee's Academy in Asheville ( North Carolina ) and Furman University in his hometown of Greenville. His training was interrupted by the time of the Civil War, in which he participated with one interruption from November 1862 to July 1863 as a soldier in the Confederation Army . He then finished his training and did an apprenticeship in the pharmacy business, where he worked for some time as a drug clerk . Then he got into farming and ran two successful farms. Later he also got into the railroad business. He was involved in building the Greenville & Laurens Railroad , and then became its president.

Politically, Mauldin joined the Democratic Party . Between 1878 and 1886 he was their district chairman in his home country. He sat on the Greenville City Council and was Mayor of that city from 1877 to 1879. In 1882 and 1883 and from 1899 to 1900 he was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives . From 1883 to 1886 and again from 1902 to 1912 he was a member of the State Senate , whose acting President ( President Pro Tempore ) he served from 1909. In 1886, Mauldin was elected Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, alongside John Peter Richardson . He held this office after re-election between 1886 and 1890. He was deputy governor and formal chairman of the state senate. He died on August 13, 1912 in his hometown of Greenville.

Web links

• William Mauldin in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• William Mauldin on Rootsweb
• William L. Mauldin Papers in the Southern Historical Collection
• Brief biography at the South Carolina Senate