Daniel Elliott Huger

Daniel Elliott Huger (* June 28, 1779 in Charleston, South Carolina; † August 21, 1854 at Sullivan's Iceland, South Carolina ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.

Daniel Elliott Huger was the son of Daniel Huger, who sat for South Carolina in the Continental Congress and House of Representatives of the United States. He was born on Limerick plantation in Berkeley County, received a classical education in Charleston and then attended the College of New Jersey, later Princeton University, where he graduated in 1798. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1799 and commenced practice as a lawyer in Charleston.

His first political office held from 1804 to 1819 as a Member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina Huger. In 1814, he served as a Brigadier General in the state militia. From 1819 to 1830 he worked as a judge in a district court before to 1832 and again from 1838 to 1842 he was a member of the Senate of South Carolina in connection. In the course of Nullifikationskrise Huger took part in the 1832 Nullifikationskonvent his state, but there was of an oppositional opinion to the doctrine propagated there.

Following the resignation of U.S. Senator John C. Calhoun Huger won the by-election to its mandate and moved into the Congress on March 3, 1843. There he was one of the State Rights Democrats, to that part of the democratic faction, therefore, who strongly argued for the rights of the individual states. He remained there until his own resignation on March 3, 1845 in the Senate. In 1852 he appeared as a delegate to a meeting for the rights of the individual states for the last time politically in appearance. Huger died two years later and was buried at the Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston.