Wade Hampton III
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Wade Hampton III was an American politician from South Carolina. He was a prominent member of one of the richest families in the antebellum Southern United States, owning thousands of acres of cotton
Wade Hampton during the Civil War
The Col. William Rhett House, 54 Hasell St., Charleston, South Carolina, the birthplace of Wade Hampton III
Wade Hampton and other leading South Carolinians inspecting the interiors of Fort Sumter, April 10, 1861
Senator Wade Hampton
The 1876 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1876, to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. The election campaign was a referendum on the Radical Republican-led
Wade Hampton III
…violence by the Red Shirts, a white-supremacist paramilitary group that disrupted elections and suppressed black voters in the state. Hampton was elected governor, serving from 1876 to 1879. After that, he served two terms as U.S. Senator from 1879 to 1891. Wade Hampton III was born in 1818 at 54 Hasell…
Wade Hampton