Benjamin Huger | |
Image Name: | Benjamin Huger, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile LCCN2007675938.jpg |
Birth Place: | Charleston County, Province of South Carolina, British America |
Death Place: | near Georgetown, South Carolina, U.S. |
Office1: | President of the South Carolina Senate |
Term1: | November 23, 1818 - December 20, 1821 |
Governor1: | Andrew Pickens John Geddes Thomas Bennett, Jr. |
Predecessor1: | John Lyde Wilson |
Successor1: | Jacob B. I'On |
Office2: | Member of the South Carolina Senate from All Saints Parish |
Term2: | November 23, 1818 - July 7, 1823 |
Predecessor2: | Francis Kinloch Huger |
Successor2: | William Amis Dillard Bryan |
Office5: | Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Prince George's, Winyah Parish |
Term7: | November 28, 1796 - December 16, 1797 |
Term6: | November 24, 1806 - August 29, 1812 |
Term5: | November 15, 1813 - December 24, 1813 |
State3: | South Carolina |
District3: | 3rd |
Term Start4: | March 4, 1799 |
Term End4: | March 3, 1805 |
Predecessor4: | Lemuel Benton |
Successor4: | David R. Williams |
Term Start3: | March 4, 1815 |
Term End3: | March 3, 1817 |
Predecessor3: | Theodore Gourdin |
Party: | Federalist |
Profession: | planter, politician |
Benjamin Huger (1768July 7, 1823) was an American farmer and politician who served as a United States representative from South Carolina, serving three terms from 1799 to 1805, and a fourth term from 1815 to 1817.
Born at or near Charleston in the Province of South Carolina in 1768, he pursued an academic course and engaged in the cultivation of rice on the Waccamaw River.
He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1796 to 1798, and was elected as a Federalist to the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth U.S. Congresses, serving from March 4, 1799 to March 3, 1805.
He was again a member of the State house of representatives from 1806 to 1813, and was then elected to the Fourteenth U.S. Congress, serving from March 4, 1815 to March 3, 1817.
He was a member of the South Carolina Senate from 1818 to 1823 and served as its president from 1819 to 1822.
He died on his estate on Waccamaw River, near Georgetown, South Carolina; interment was in All Saints' Churchyard.