Andrew R. Govan

Andrew Robison Govan ( born January 13, 1794 in Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, † June 27, 1841 in Hudsonville, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1822 and 1827 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Govan enjoyed in Willington a private education. Subsequently, he studied until 1813 at the South Carolina College, which later became the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Then he bought a plantation and was interested in horse racing. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the years 1820-1821 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. After the death of Congressman James Overstreet in 1822 he was in the fourth constituency of South Carolina as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on December 4, 1822 at its new mandate. Until March 3, 1823 he ended the legislative session of his predecessor. Since he was in 1822 and 1824 respectively confirmed at the regular congressional elections the years, he could remain until March 3, 1827 Congress.

After the dissolution of his party in the 1820s, he joined the faction of the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson to, from the 1828 emerged the Democratic Party. In Congress was Govan witness the heated discussions between his party and the supporters of President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. In the years 1826 and 1828, Govan applied unsuccessfully to his whereabouts or his return to the Congress.

In 1828 Andrew Govan moved to Mississippi. There, in the Marshall County he worked until his death in 1841 as a planter on his plantation " Snowdown ". There he was also buried. Three of his sons later became officers in the Army of the Confederate States. The son George was also still managing as Secretary of State official of the State of Mississippi.