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Legaré, George Swinton, 1869-1913

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Personal name headingLegaré, George Swinton, 1869-1913
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Birth date1869-11-11
Death date1913-01-31
Place of birthRockville (S.C.)
Place of deathCharleston (S.C.)
AffiliationUnited States. Congress. House
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Found inNUCMC data South Carolina Historical Society for His Letters, 1984-1919 (George Swinton Legaré, 1869-1913, U.S. congressman from Charleston, S.C.; wife: Frances Izlar Legaré)
LC man. auth. cd. (hdg.: Legaré, George Swinton, 1869-1913)
Bio. dir. Am. congress, 1774-1989 (Legaré, George Swinton; rep. from South Carolina; b. Rockville, S.C., Nov. 11, 1869; served 1903-1913; d. Charleston, S.C., 1913)
Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed March 2, 2023 (Legaré, George Swinton, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Rockville, Charleston County, S.C., November 11, 1869; moved to Charleston in boyhood; was graduated from Porter Academy, Charleston, S.C., in 1889 and attended the law department of the University of South Carolina at Columbia for two years; was graduated from Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1893; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Charleston, S.C.; corporation counsel 1898-1903; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, until his death, before the close of the Sixty-second Congress; had been reelected to the Sixty-third Congress; died in Charleston, S.C., January 31, 1913; interment in Magnolia Cemetery)
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