David R. Evans (South Carolina politician)

David Reid Evans ( born February 20, 1769 in Westminster, England; † March 8, 1843 in Winnsboro, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1784, David Evans co-migrated with a father in the United States. They settled in South Carolina, where Evans Mount Zion College visited. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1796 admitted to the bar he began in Winnsboro to work in his new profession.

Evans was a member of which was founded by President Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1802 and 1805 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. From 1804 to 1811 he also worked as a prosecutor. In the congressional elections of 1812, Evans was in the fifth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard Winn on March 4, 1813. Since he resigned in 1814 to further candidacy, he was able to complete up to March 3, 1815, only one term in Congress, which was dominated by the events of the British - American War.

After his time in Repräsentantanhaus Evans managed a plantation which he had now acquired. Between 1818 and 1826, he was a member of the Senate of South Carolina. David Evans was also the first president of the Bible Society in Fairfield County. He died on March 8, 1843, in Winnsboro.