Simpson, W. D
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, governor, was born June 11, 1803, in Brunswick county, Va. In 1856 he was elected a representative in the South Carolina state legislature; and was re-elected. He was elected a state senator in 1860. He entered the confederate army as lieutenant-colonel on staff duty; and was afterward major and lieutenant-colonel in the line. In 1863 he was elected a representative in the confederate congress; and in 1868 was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-first congress. In 1876 he was elected lieutenant-governor of South Carolina; and was re-elected in 1878. In 1879 he became governor of the state by the election of Governor Hampton to the United States senate; and in that year was elected chief justice of the supreme court of the state for the term of six years from 1880.
SIMPSON, WILLIAM ALEXANDER, lawyer, scientist, author, was born Jan. 24, 1836, in Knox county, Tenn. He has been county surveyor of Roane and Loudon counties, Tenn.; for sixteen years a member of the magistrate's court of Loudon county; and for twenty-three years postmaster of Stockton. He is a noted scientist, and the author of A Common Sense Commentary on the Bible. SIMS, ALEXANDER DROMGOOLE, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born June 11, 1803, in Brunswick county, Va.
He served in the South Carolina state legislature in 1840 and 1842; and was a member of congress from South Carolina from 1845 to 1848. He died Nov. 11, 1848, in Kingstree, S. C.