John J. Hemphill

John James Hemphill ( born August 25, 1849 in Chester, Chester County, South Carolina, † May 11 1912 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1883 and 1893 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Hemphill was a member of a famous political family. He was a cousin of William H. Brawley (1841-1916), who also was a congressman for South Carolina 1891-1891. He was also a nephew of John Hemphill (1803-1862) who sat from 1859 to 1861 for Texas in the United States Senate. John Hemphills great-nephew Robert W. Hemphill (1915-1983) was 1957-1964 and Congressman and later a judge in South Carolina.

Hemphill attended the common schools and then studied until 1869 at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1870 admitted to the bar he began in Chester to work in his new profession. Politically, Hemphill joined the Democratic Party. In 1874 he applied unsuccessfully to have a place in the House of Representatives of South Carolina. But two years later, he made ​​the jump to this body. Between 1876 and 1882 he was deputy there.

1882 Hemphill was selected in the fifth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1883 the successor of Robert Smalls of the Republican Party. After four elections he could implement his mandate in Congress until March 3, 1893. There he was at times Chairman of the Committee for the administration of the Federal District District of Columbia. In 1892 he was not re-elected.

In the following years, John Hemphill practiced law in the federal capital Washington. But he retained his residence in South Carolina. In 1902 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. He died on May 11, 1912 in Washington.