William DuBose (politician)
William DuBose (born 1786 or 1787, St. Stephen's Parish (modern Berkeley County, South Carolina); died near Pineville, South Carolina, February 24, 1855) was an American plantation owner, lawyer, and politician who served as lieutenant governor of South Carolina from 1836 to 1838.
Life
[edit]DuBose was the son of Dr. Samuel DuBose (1758-1811) and Elizabeth Sinkler. The DuBoses were a Huguenot family which had arrived early in the settlement of South Carolina and become prominent. DuBose was educated at a school in Newport, Rhode Island and then at Yale, graduating in 1807. While at Yale he was a member of the Society of Brothers in Unity.[1] After reading for the law, he was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1811.
DuBose served as a local justice of the peace and justice of the quorum and as a school commissioner and buildings commissioner. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1808[2] and in the South Carolina Senate in 1825[3] and 1834-5.[4] He was a presidential elector in 1832, supporting John Floyd of the Nullifier Party,[5] and a member of the South Carolina Nullification Convention in that year.[6] He served as lieutenant governor from December 1836 to December 1838.[7]
DuBose was a delegate to the Fourth Convention of Merchants and Others held in Charleston, South Carolina in 1839, part of a series of conventions intended to improve the regional economy.[8]
Personal life
[edit]DuBose lived on the Bluford Plantation, near Pineville, which had come into the possession of the DuBoses from his mother's family, the Sinklers.[9] He married Laura Stevens in 1813, his step-mother's sister.[10]
DuBose was a great-uncle of the Episcopal theologian William Porcher DuBose (1836-1918); William Porcher DuBose was the grandson of Samuel DuBose Jr., William DuBose's older brother.[11] William DuBose was the brother-in-law of another lieutenant governor of South Carolina, William Cain, whose first marriage was to DuBose's sister Anna Marie (1793-1827).
References
[edit]- ^ A Catalogue of the Society of Brothers in Unity, Yale College, Founded 1768, Hitchcock & Stafford, 1841, p. 34.
- ^ http://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/antebellum/sc_antebellum_18th_general_assembly_members.html List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1808
- ^ http://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/antebellum/sc_antebellum_26th_general_assembly_members.html List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1824-5
- ^ http://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/antebellum/sc_antebellum_31st_general_assembly_members.html List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1834-5
- ^ The New-England Magazine, Volume 4 (1833), p. 71
- ^ Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Volume 1, E. Croswell, 1833, p. 26
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20140714123511/http://www.e-familytree.net/F211/F211215.htm Archive of William Dubose genealogical info
- ^ Debow's Review, vol. 4, New Orleans: Office of the Commercial Review, 1847, p. 338
- ^ https://south-carolina-plantations.com/berkeley/bluford.html Bluford Plantation info
- ^ A Contribution to the History of the Huguenots of South Carolina, "Reminiscences of St. Stephen's Parish, Craven County", Samuel DuBose, New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1887, p.52
- ^ Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 3, Marion - Villepontoux, Horry Frost Prioleau, Edward Lining Manigault, Lulu.com, 2010, p. 1338-1342
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