John L. McLaurin

John Lowndes McLaurin ( born May 9, 1860 in Red Bluff, Marlboro County, South Carolina, † July 29, 1934 in Bennettsville, South Carolina ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), that of the state of South Carolina in both chambers Congress represented.

After attending school in Bennettsville and Englewood (New Jersey) John McLaurin continued his education first at a military academy near Warrenton (Virginia) and later on the Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania continue. After graduating from the Carolina Military Institute, he studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the law, was admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced practice in Bennettsville.

Politically, McLaurin operated for the first time in 1890, when he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from South Carolina; the following year he took over the post of Attorney General of South Carolina and kept it until 1897. Upon the death of Congressman Eli T. Stackhouse won McLaurin the by-election to his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, in which he entered on December 5, 1892. He chose the following three choices for themselves and remained there until his resignation on 31 May 1897 On the following day he moved within the Congress in the Senate.; where he had been appointed to succeed the late Joseph H. Earle. The by-election, he also won, so he kept the Senate seat until March 3, 1903; to a further election, he did not start. Due to a dispute with Benjamin Tillman, the other senator from South Carolina, McLaurin was officially reprimanded on 22 February 1902.

After his time in Congress McLaurin moved to New York City where he worked as a lawyer again. Later he returned to Bennettsville and worked in the agricultural industry; he also became politically active again and sat from 1914 to 1915 in the Senate of South Carolina. From 1915 until his retirement in 1917 he held the office of Commissioner for the state goods depots; then he sat down near Bennettsville to rest.