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MCDUFFIE, GEORGE (1788-1851)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 214 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MCDUFFIE, See also:GEORGE (1788-1851) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader;' was See also:born in See also:Columbia See also:county, See also:Georgia. He was admitted to the See also:bar in 1814, and served in the See also:South Carolina See also:General See also:Assembly in 1818-1821, and in the See also:national See also:House of Representatives in 1821–1834. In 1821 he published a pamphlet in which strict construction and states' rights were strongly denounced; yet in 1832 there were few more uncompromising nullificationists. The See also:change seems to have been See also:gradual, and to have been determined in See also:part by the See also:influence of See also:John C. See also:Calhoun. When, after 1824, the old Democratic-Republican party split into factions, he followed See also:Andrew See also:Jackson and See also:Martin See also:Van Buren' in opposing the See also:Panama See also:Congress and the policy of making Federal appropriations for See also:internal improvements. He did not hesitate, however, to differ from Jackson on the two See also:chief issues of his See also:administration: the See also:Bank and See also:nullification. In 1832 he was a prominent member of the South Carolina Nullification See also:Convention, and drafted its address to the See also:people of the See also:United States. He served as See also:governor in 2834-1836, "during which See also:time he helped to reorganize South Carolina See also:College. From See also:January 1843 until January 1846 he was a member of the United States See also:Senate. The leading Democratic See also:measures of those years all received his hearty support. McDuffie, like' Calhoun, became an eloquent See also:champion of See also:state See also:sovereignty; but while Calhoun emphasized state See also:action as the only means of redressing a grievance, McDuffie paid more See also:attention to the grievance itself.

Influenced in large measure by See also:

Thomas See also:Cooper, he made it his See also:special See also:work to convince the people of the South that the downfall of See also:protection was essential to their material progress. His See also:argument that it is the producer who really pays the See also:duty of imports has been called the economic basis of nullification. He died at See also:Cherry See also:Hill, See also:Sumter See also:district, South Carolina, on the 11th of See also:March 1851.

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