Hampton, Wade
soldier, governor, congressman, United States senator, was born March 28 , 1818, in Charleston, S. C.
At different times he served in both branches of the legislature, being a state senator at the time the state seceded. He resigned from the senate and entered the confederate army; and served with conspicuous gallantry, rising to the rank of major-general . He was elected governor of South Carolina in 1876, and was reelected in 1878. In December of the latter year he was elected a senator of the United States for the term of six years from March 4, 1879; and in 1885 was reelected for the term ending in 1891.