William K. Clowney

William Kennedy Clowney ( born March 21, 1797 Union County, South Carolina, † March 12, 1851 in Union, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1839 he represented twice the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Clowney attended both private and public schools. Then he studied until 1818 at the South Carolina College, later the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Then Clowney worked as a teacher in Unionville and at the University of South Carolina. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to practice in his new profession.

In addition to these activities Clowney also began a political career. During the Nullifikationskrise between the State of South Carolina and led by President Andrew Jackson Federal Government he represented the positions of his state. As a so -called Nullifier he was of the opinion that the controversial federal customs law for South Carolina is invalid. Between 1830 and 1831 he was a member of the House of Representatives of South Carolina.

1832 Clowney was in the seventh constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1833, to succeed William T. Nuckolls. Until March 3, 1835, he represented this district in Congress. Then his mandate fell to the Democrats Richard Irvine Manning. In the elections of 1836 Clowney was elected to Congress again in the second district of South Carolina, where he replaced William J. Grayson on January 3, 1837. Until March 3, 1839, he was able to complete another term in the U.S. House of Representatives, during which he was chairman of the Committee to control expenditure of the War Department.

In 1840 he sat in the Senate of South Carolina. Between 1840 and 1842 William Clowney was also Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. After he retired from politics. He died on 12 March 1851 in Union.