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About Wade Hampton III
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 land in South Carolina and Mississippi, as well as thousands of slaves. He became a senior general in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War. He also had a career as a leading Democratic Party politician in state and national affairs.
Everything about Wade Hampton III →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Governor of South Carolina, member of the State Senate of South Carolina, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, United States senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 28, 1818
- Died
- April 11, 1902