Bonham, Milledge L
soldier, lawyer, congressman, governor, was born in South Carolina. He was elected a representative to the thirty-fifth congress from his native state, and was re-elected to the thirty-sixth congress. He was a majorgeneral of militia, and served in Mexico at the head of a battalion of South Carolina troops; and served as a major-general in the confederate army in 1861. He was governor of South Carolina from 1862 to 1864; and was a delegate to the New York convention of 1868. He died Aug. 28, 1890, in White Sulphur Springs, Va.