John Peter Richardson III

John Peter Richardson Jr. ( born September 25, 1831 Clarendon County, South Carolina, † July 6, 1899 in Columbia, South Carolina ) was an American politician and from 1886 to 1890 Governor of South Carolina.

Early years

John Richardson was born into a prominent political family in South Carolina. He was related to at least four other governors of this state, the surname of either Richardson or Manning. His father John Peter Richardson senior was 1840-1842 Governor. The young John graduated in 1849, the South Carolina College, later University of South Carolina. In the following years he worked on his plantation in Clarendon County and was in the 1850s, partly in the state parliament of South Carolina operates. During the American Civil War, he fought in the ranks of the Confederacy.

Political rise

After the war he was first re-elected to the state legislature and then to the Senate of South Carolina, where he remained until 1867. From 1878 to 1886 he was Minister of Finance of South Carolina. For the forthcoming end of 1886 gubernatorial election, he was within his Democratic Party in preference to the incumbent Governor John Sheppard.

Governor of South Carolina

In the actual election, he was unrivaled. Both in 1886 and two years later in his re-election, the Republican Party gave up an opposing candidate. In his four -year term, the conditions for the establishment of the " Clemson Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges " were created. It is worth mentioning also that in those years the Farmer Association ( Farmers Association ) won a great political influence in South Carolina.

Retirement

After the end of his tenure, Richardson withdrew from politics. He died in 1899.