John Carter (South Carolina)

John Carter (* September 10, 1792 in Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina, † June 20 1850 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1822 and 1829 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Carter was born on the Black River near Camden. After primary school, he graduated from South Carolina College in Columbia, later the University of South Carolina emerged from the. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1814 admitted to the bar he began in Camden to work in his new profession.

Between 1814 and 1820 he held the office of Commissioner of equity. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. Following the resignation of Congressman James Blair, he was elected as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington in the necessary by-election in the ninth constituency of South Carolina. There he finished between 11 December 1822 and 3 March 1823 Unopened legislature of his predecessor.

For the regular elections of 1822 Carter was elected for the eighth district in Congress. After two re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1829 in Congress. There he witnessed the violent political clashes between supporters of President John Quincy Adams and the partisans of the future President Andrew Jackson, whom Carter joined in the 1820s. From movement to Jackson in 1828 was the Democratic Party.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Carter again worked as a lawyer in Camden. In 1836 he settled in Georgetown, a suburb of the Federal Capital Washington, down. There he is also deceased in June 1850.