| 词条 | Wade Hampton I |
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|name= Wade Hampton I |image name= Wade Hampton I.jpg |district2 = {{ushr|South Carolina|2|2nd}} |state2 = South Carolina |term_start2 = March 4, 1795 |term_end2 = March 3, 1797 |predecessor2 = John Hunter |successor2 = John Rutledge, Jr. |district1 = {{ushr|South Carolina|4|4th}} |state1 = South Carolina |term_start1 = March 4, 1803 |term_end1 = March 3, 1805 |predecessor1 = Richard Winn |successor1 = O'Brien Smith |birth_date= 1752 |birth_place= |death_date= February 4, 1835 |death_place= |profession= planter, soldier, politician |party = Democratic-Republican |allegiance = {{flag|United States of America|1777}} |branch = {{Flagicon image|Gadsden flag.svg}} Continental Army {{army|USA}} |serviceyears = 1777 - 1781; 1808 - 1814 |battles = American Revolutionary War 1811 German Coast Uprising War of 1812 |rank = Major general }} Wade Hampton (1752 – February 4, 1835) was an American soldier, politician, two-term U.S. Congressman, and may have been the wealthiest planter and one of the largest slave holders in the U.S. at the time of his death. BiographyHe was the scion of the politically important Hampton family, which was influential in state politics almost into the 20th century. His second great-grandfather Thomas Hampton (1623–1690) was born in England and settled in the Virginia Colony. Military careerHampton served in the American Revolutionary War as a lieutenant colonel in a South Carolina volunteer cavalry regiment. He was a Democratic-Republican member of Congress for South Carolina from 1795 to 1797 and from 1803 to 1805, and a presidential elector in 1800. He was appointed to the US Army as Colonel of Regiment of Light Dragoons in October 1808, and was promoted to Brigadier General in February 1809, appointed as the top military officer in the Territory of Orleans.[1] He used the U.S. military presence in New Orleans to suppress the 1811 German Coast Uprising, a slave revolt which he believed was a Spanish plot. In the same year, he purchased The Houmas, a sugar plantation in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. This may have been a gift for his daughter and son-in-law, as the son-in-law was managing the plantation by 1825. During the War of 1812, Hampton commanded the American forces in the Battle of the Chateauguay in 1813, leading thousands of U.S. soldiers to defeat at the hands of a little over a thousand colonial Canadian militia and 180 Mohawk warriors, then getting his army lost in the woods. On April 6, 1814, he resigned his commission and returned to South Carolina. Later lifeThereafter, he acquired a large fortune through land speculation. At his death in the 1830s, it was said that he was the wealthiest planter in the U.S. and possessed some 3,000 slaves amongst his holdings.[2] Hampton had a mansion, now known as the Hampton-Preston House, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in Columbia, South Carolina. His son Wade Hampton II and grandson Wade Hampton III also became prominent in South Carolina social and political circles. The younger man served as the state's first Democratic Party governor after the American Civil War and then was elected to the United States Senate. During the war, he had a distinguished career as a general in the Confederate army. Wade Hampton I is interred in the churchyard at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia, South Carolina's capital city. See also
Notes1. ^Heitman p. 78 2. ^http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~msissaq2/hampton.html The Wade Hampton Family, The Issaquena Genealogy and History Project, Rootsweb, retrieved May 7, 2017 References
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