Eldred Simkins

Eldred Simkins ( born August 30, 1779 Edgefield, South Carolina, † November 17, 1831 ) was an American politician. Between 1818 and 1821 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Life

Eldred Simkins was taught at a private school in Willington. He then studied at the South Carolina College, which later became the University of South Carolina in Columbia. After a subsequent study of law at the Litchfield Law School in Connecticut and its made ​​in 1805 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Edgefield.

Politically Simkins was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In 1806 he was elected to the House of Representatives from South Carolina, 1810-1812, he was a member of the State Senate. After that, he was from 1812 to 1814 Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. Following the resignation of Congressman John C. Calhoun, he was in the sixth constituency of South Carolina as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he joined on 24 January 1818 its new mandate. After a re-election at the regular congressional elections of 1818 he could remain until March 3, 1821 in Congress. He was chairman of the Aussuchusses to control public spending.

In 1820, Simkins gave up another candidacy. He then worked again as a lawyer. He also worked as a planter on the family's plantation. In the years 1828-1829 he was again deputy in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. He died on 17 November 1831 in his birthplace of Edgefield.