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PICKENS, FRANCIS WILKINSON (1805-1869)

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FRANCIS
FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)
FRANCIS See also:
WILKINSON, JAMES (1757–1825)
WILKINSON, JAMES JOHN GARTH (1812-1899)
WILKINSON, JOHN (1728-1808)
WILKINSON, SIR JOHN GARDNER (1797—1875)
WILKINSON, TATE (1739—1803)
WILKINSON (1805-1869) , See also:

AMERICAN

American politician, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in Togadoo, St See also:

Paul's See also:

PARISH (Gr. irapouda, district, neighbourhood; 7r&poucos, one dwelling near or beside, from crap&, OtKOS, house; Lat. paroecur, Late Lat. parochia; cf. Fr. paroisse)

parish, See also:

South Carolina, on the 7th of See also:

APRIL

April 18o5, son of See also:

Andrew Pickens (1779-1838) and See also:

GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson of See also:

General Andrew Pickens (1739-1817). He was educated at See also:

Franklin See also:

COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

Athens, See also:

GEORGIA

Georgia, and at South Carolina College, See also:

COLUMBIA

Columbia, and was admitted to the See also:

bar in 1829. In 1832 he was elected to the See also:

state See also:

House of Representatives, where, as chairman of a sub-See also:

COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee, he submitted a See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report denying the right of See also:

CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress to exercise any See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control over the states. He was a Democratic member of the See also:

NATIONAL

National House of Representatives in 1834-1843, served in the South Carolina See also:

SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

Senate in 1844-1845, was a delegate to the See also:

NASHVILLE

Nashville See also:

SOUTHERN

Southern See also:

Convention (see NASHVILLE, See also:

TENNESSEE

TENNESSEE) in 1850, was See also:

UNITED

United States See also:

MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister to See also:

Russia in 1858-186o, and in 186o-1862 was See also:

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor of South Carolina. He strongly advocated the See also:

SECESSION

secession of the Southern states; signed the South Carolina See also:

ordinance of secession; protested against See also:

Major See also:

Robert See also:

Anderson's removal from Fort See also:

MOULTRIE, WILLIAM (1730-1805)

Moultrie to Fort See also:

Sumter; sanctioned the firing upon the " See also:

STAR

Star of the See also:

West " (See also:

Jan. 9, 1861), which was bringing supplies to Anderson, and the See also:

BOMBARDMENT

bombardment of Fort Sumter; and was a zealous supporter of the Confederate cause. At the See also:

close of his See also:

TERM

term he retired to his See also:

home at Edgefield, South Carolina, where he died on the 25th of See also:

JANUARY

January 1869.

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