John K. Griffin

John King Griffin ( * August 13 1789 in Clinton, Laurens County, South Carolina; † August 1, 1841 ) was an American politician. Between 1831 and 1841 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Griffin received an academic education. Later he worked as a planter. At the same time he began a political career. Between 1816 and 1819 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. After that, he was from 1820 to 1824 and again in 1828 to the State Senate. End of the 1820s he joined, founded by John C. Calhoun short-lived Nullifier Party. This pushed for the strengthening of the rights of individual states to the federal government. They also argued that individual states have the right to set federal laws in their field overridden. This led, in the case of South Carolina to Nullifikationskrise with the run of President Andrew Jackson Federal Government. Later, most members of the Nullifier Party, as well as John Griffin came over to the Democratic Party.

1830 Griffin was in the ninth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Starling Tucker on March 4, 1831. After a re-election in 1832 he was able to represent this district until March 3, 1835 Congress. In 1834 he was elected in the third district, succeeding Robert B. Campbell. This district he represented initially 1835-1837 and then again 1839-1841. During the intervening legislative period between March 4, 1837, and in March 1839 he represented the Fourth District as successor to Franklin H. Elmore. Overall, graduated from John Griffin 1831-1841 five contiguous legislatures in Congress.

Griffin died a few months after his last official time near his home town of Clinton.