SIMKINS, Eldred, A Representative from South Carolina; born in Edgefield, S.C., August 30, 1779; attended a private academy at Willington, Abbeville District, S.C.; graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia; attended Litchfield (Conn.) Law School for three years; was admitted to the bar in 1805 and commenced practice in Edgefield, S.C., in 1806; member of the South Carolina state house of representatives, 1806; served in the South Carolina state senate, 1810-1812; Lieutenant Governor of the State 1812-1814; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Fifteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John C. Calhoun and reelected to the succeeding Congress and served from January 24, 1818, to March 3, 1821; chairman, Committee on Public Expenditures (Sixteenth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination; again a member of the South Carolina state house of representatives, 1828-1829; resumed the practice of his profession and also engaged in planting; died in Edgefield, Edgefield County, S.C., November 17, 1831; interment in Cedar Fields, the family burial ground, near Edgefield, S.C.
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