Eli T. Stackhouse

Eli Thomas Stackhouse ( born March 27, 1824 in Little Rock, Marion County, South Carolina, † June 14 1892 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1892 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Eli Stackhouse attended the common schools and worked on his father's farm. Moreover, he was himself working for some years as a teacher before he independently worked in agriculture. During the Civil War he was an officer in the army of the Confederate States. By war's end, he had attained the rank of Colonel. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party.

In 1863 and from 1865 to 1866 he was a member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina. Stackhouse was also curator of the 1887 Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical College. In 1888 he was the first president of the farmers union of South Carolina. In the congressional elections of 1890, he was elected in the sixth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of George W. Dargan on March 4, 1891. Eli Stackhouse could not finish its actually runs until March 3, 1893 legislative session in Congress, because he already died on 14 June 1892. He was buried in his home town of Little Rock. His parliamentary seat fell after a special election to John L. McLaurin.

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