James Burchill Richardson
{{Short description|American politician (1770–1836)}}
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|name=James Burchell Richardson
|image=James Burchill Richardson.jpg
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|order=41st
|office=Governor of South Carolina
|term_start=December 8, 1802
|term_end=December 7, 1804
|lieutenant=Ezekiel Pickens
|predecessor=John Drayton
|successor=Paul Hamilton
|office2 = Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Clarendon District
|term2 = November 25, 1816 – November 23, 1818
|term3 = November 26, 1804 – November 24, 1806
|term4 = November 26, 1792 – December 8, 1802
|office5 = President pro tempore of the South Carolina Senate
|term5 = September 15, 1813 – September 24, 1813
|predecessor5 = Samuel Warren
|successor5 = Savage Smith
|office6 = Member of the South Carolina Senate from Clarendon District
|term6 = November 26, 1810 – December 8, 1813
|office7 = Member of the South Carolina Senate from Claremont and Clarendon District
|term7 = November 24, 1806 – November 26, 1810
|birth_date={{Birth date|1770|10|28}}
|birth_place=Clarendon County, South Carolina
|death_date={{Death date and age|1836|4|28|1770|10|28}}
|death_place=Clarendon County, South Carolina, US
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|profession=
|party=Democratic-Republican
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James Burchell Richardson (October 28, 1770{{spaced ndash}}April 28, 1836) was the Governor of South Carolina from 1802 to 1804.
Family
Born in Clarendon County to Brigadier General Richard Richardson (general), a famed Revolutionary War leader,{{cite web |last1=Lewis |first1=J.D. |title=General Richard Richardson |url=http://www.carolana.com/SC/Revolution/patriot_leaders_sc_richard_richardson.html |website=The American Revolution in South Carolina |access-date=April 25, 2019}} and Dorcas Richardson, an American heroine,{{cite wikisource | edition=Third |last=Ellet |first=Elizabeth F. |title=The Women of the American Revolution |date=1849 |wslink=The Women of the American Revolution/Dorcas Richardson}} he received his education at the local schools in Clarendon County. He afterwards became a planter at the Richardsons' Big Home Plantation.
Political career
In 1792, Richardson was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and served for ten years. The General Assembly chose him to be Governor of South Carolina in 1802 for a two-year term. During his time as governor, the legislature repealed laws against the traffic of slaves, but prohibited the importation of slaves under the age of fifteen from other states.
Upon leaving the governorship in 1804, Richardson returned as a member of the state House of Representatives. He won election to the South Carolina Senate in 1806 and served until 1814. From 1816 to 1818, Richardson was a member of the state House of Representatives for a third and final time. He spent the rest of his life on his plantation where he died on April 28, 1836, and was interred at the Richardson Cemetery.
References
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- {{cite book |first=John Harold |last=Wolfe |title=Jeffersonian Democracy in South Carolina |year=1940 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |pages=182, 189}}
External links
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- [http://www.sciway.net/hist/governors/jbrichardson.html SCIway Biography of James Burchill Richardson]
- [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=e28325330cd1a010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD NGA Biography of James Burchill Richardson]
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|before=John Drayton
|title=Governor of South Carolina
|years=1802–1804
|after=Paul Hamilton}}
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Category:18th-century American politicians
Category:18th-century American planters
Category:19th-century American planters
Category:Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives
Category:Governors of South Carolina
Category:University of South Carolina trustees
Category:South Carolina state senators
Category:South Carolina Democratic-Republicans
Category:Democratic-Republican Party state governors of the United States
Category:19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly
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