Daniel Huger | |
Image Name: | Daniel Huger.jpg |
State: | South Carolina |
District: | 3rd |
Party: | Pro-Administration |
Term Start: | March 4, 1789 |
Term End: | March 3, 1793 |
Preceded: | Position created |
Succeeded: | Lemuel Benton |
Office2: | Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from South Carolina |
Term Start2: | November 6, 1786 |
Term End2: | October 21, 1788 |
Birth Date: | 20 February 1742 |
Birth Place: | Berkeley County, Province of South Carolina, British America |
Death Place: | Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. |
Children: | Daniel Elliott Huger |
Daniel Huger (February 20, 1742July 6, 1799) was an American slaveholder, planter and politician who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from Berkeley County, South Carolina from 1789 to 1793.
His grandfather was Daniel Huger Sr (1651–1711), a French Huguenot who was born in Loudun, France and settled in Charleston.
Daniel Huger was a delegate for South Carolina to the Continental Congress from 1786 to 1788 and a United States representative from 1789 to 1793.[1] He owned slaves.
Daniel Huger's wife was the sister of the wife of Lewis Morris, Jr., the son of New York Congressman Lewis Morris.[1] His son, Daniel Elliott Huger, would later serve in the United States Senate for South Carolina and marry a daughter of Arthur Middleton.
Mary Procter Huger, his great-granddaughter through his son Daniel, was the wife of Confederate General Arthur Middleton Manigault, who was of Huguenot descent himself; likewise a nephew of Daniel Elliot Huger was Confederate General Benjamin Huger.