John Myers Felder | |
Birth Date: | July 7, 1782 |
Birth Place: | Orangeburg, South Carolina, U.S. |
Death Place: | Orangeburg, South Carolina, U.S. |
State3: | South Carolina |
District3: | 4th |
Term Start3: | March 4, 1831 |
Term End3: | March 3, 1835 |
Predecessor3: | William D. Martin |
Successor3: | James H. Hammond |
Office4: | Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Orange Parish |
Term4: | November 25, 1822 – December 20, 1823 |
Term5: | November 23, 1812 – December 16, 1815 |
Office1: | Member of the South Carolina Senate from Orange Parish |
Term1: | November 23, 1840 – September 1, 1851 |
Predecessor1: | Sanders Glover |
Successor1: | Michael Grambling |
Term2: | November 25, 1816 – December 18, 1819 |
Predecessor2: | Donald Rowe |
Successor2: | George Gilmore Salley |
Alma Mater: | Yale University Litchfield Law School |
Profession: | lawyer, planter |
Party: | Jacksonian |
Otherparty: | Nullifier |
John Myers Felder (July 7, 1782 – September 1, 1851) was a United States politician who served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing South Carolina, from 1831 to 1835.
His grandfather was a native of Switzerland, came to South Carolina about 1720, and was killed during the American Revolution while defending his house against an attack by Tories. The grandson was born in the vicinity of Orangeburg, South Carolina. He graduated from Yale University in 1804, a roommate and close friend of John Caldwell Calhoun.
After graduation, he studied at Litchfield Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1808. He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1812.
In 1830, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served in Congress for four years, first as a Jacksonian and from 1833 as a Nullifier.
After declining renomination in 1834, he went back to South Carolina, where the voters of Orangeburg returned him to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1840. He served there until his death on September 1, 1851.
Felder retired from the legal profession in 1830, and became a prosperous mill owner and planter. He never married and had no children, although his sister Eliza has many descendants.