William H. Brawley

William Huggins Brawley ( born May 13, 1841 in Chester, Chester County, South Carolina, † November 15, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1891 and 1894 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Brawley was a cousin of John J. Hemphill (1849-1912), who was also 1883-1892 for South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was also a great-uncle of Robert W. Hemphill (1915-1983), who was 1957-1965 congressman of that State. Brawley attended the public schools of his home and then studied until 1860 at the South Carolina College, now the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

During the Civil War Brawley joined the Army of the Confederate States. During the fights he lost an arm. He then retired from the military service. In the years 1864 and 1865 Brawley toured Europe, before returning to his homeland. After studying law and its made ​​in 1866 admitted to the bar he began in Chester to work in his new profession. Between 1868 and 1874 Brawley worked in the Seventh Judicial District of South Carolina as a lawyer. He then moved to Charleston, where he also practiced law.

Politically Brawley became a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1882 and 1890 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. In the congressional elections of 1890 he was the first electoral district of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Dibble on March 4, 1891. In 1892 he was re-elected. William Brawley but ended his second term in Congress prematurely on February 12, 1894 after he was appointed as a judge at the Federal District Court for the District of South Carolina.

Between 1894 and 1911 practiced Brawley from his judgeship. Then he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Charleston. There he died on 15 November 1916.