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Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857

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Personal name headingCheves, Langdon, 1776-1857
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See alsoDescendants: Cheves (Family : Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857)
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedPendleton (S.C.)
Birth date1776-09-17
Death date1857-06-26
Profession or occupationLegislators
Found innuc86-36635: Langdon Cheves I papers [MI] 1984 (hdg. on MH rept.: Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857; usage: Langdon Cheves)
LC data base, 6/24/86 (hdg.: Cheves, Langdon, 1776-1857)
Finding aid for Cheves and Wagner family papers, via UNC University Libraries WWW site, Apr. 29, 2020 (Members of the Cheves and Wagner families lived in South Carolina and Georgia. Prominent family members included Ann Hrabowska Wagner (fl. 1814-1818) of Charleston, S.C.; Langdon Cheves (1776-1857) of South Carolina, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1814-1815) and president of the Bank of the United States (1819-1822); Mrs. Charles West (fl. 1879-1919) of Baltimore, apparently Langdon Cheves's daughter; and Charlotte McCord Cheves (fl. 1853-1878) of Savannah, Ga., wife of Cheves's son, Langdon Cheves, Jr.)
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South Carolina encyclopedia WWW site, Apr. 29, 2020 (Cheves, Langdon; born at Bull Town Fort in Abbeville District, S.C., on September 17, 1776, the son of Alexander and Mary Langdon Cheves, died in Columbia, S.C., on June 26, 1857; lawyer, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, South Carolina attorney general, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, member of the South Carolina Court of Appeals, president of the Second National Bank of the United States, rice planter; during the last two decades of his life he divided his time between his country mansion, the Delta, near Savannah, Georgia, and a summer retreat in Pendleton)
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