Edmund William McGregor Mackey

Edmund William McGregor Mackey ( born March 8, 1846 in Charleston, South Carolina; † January 27, 1884 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1876, and again from 1882 to 1884, he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After a good primary education Mackey was hired in 1865 with the tax authorities of South Carolina. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In 1868 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of South Carolina. After studying law and its made ​​in 1868 admitted to the bar he began in Charleston to work in his new profession.

Between 1868 and 1872 he was sheriff in Charleston County. At that time he was several times in the city council of Charleston. There he gave in 1871 and 1872, the newspaper " Charleston Republican " out. In 1873 he was a member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina. 1874 Mackey was elected as an independent Republican in the second constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1875 on the succession of Alonzo J. Ransier. On July 19, 1876 his seat was declared after an election appeal by Charles W. Buttz by Congress for vacant. In the following election Buttz was then elected to Congress.

1877 Mackey was a member and President of the House of Representatives from South Carolina. During this time there were domestic political unrest. There were violent riots, combined with electoral fraud, between the supporters of the Republican and the Democratic Party. At times, had to guard the Parliament Building Federal troops. Thither the republican deputies had withdrawn.

In the years 1872 and 1880 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions, where Ulysses S. Grant and later, James A. Garfield was nominated as the presidential candidate. From 1878 to 1881 Mackey was Deputy Attorney General for South Carolina. In 1878 he ran unsuccessfully for his return to the Congress. The election won Michael P. O'Connor, who was confirmed in 1880. Against this choice presented Mackey a contradiction. Meanwhile died O'Connor and Samuel Dibble was elected as his successor. After Mackey's original protest was then been upheld, he could take over the mandate of Dibble. Between May 1882 and March 3, 1883 31, he finished the opened legislature for the second district of South Carolina. In the elections of 1882 he was elected to Congress again in a re- decorated seventh district. On 4 March 1883 he entered there on his mandate. There he served until his death on 27 January 1884. Consequently Mackey was elected to Congress three times, but could not complete a full term of office there.