BLACK, JAMES AUGUSTUS, a Representative from South Carolina;
born on his father's plantation in Ninety Six District, near Abbeville, S.C., in 1793;
attended the common schools on his father's plantation;
during the War of 1812 was appointed a second lieutenant in the Eighth Infantry March 12, 1812;
promoted to first lieutenant December 2, 1813, and was honorably discharged June 15, 1815;
engaged in the mining of iron ore on what is now the present site of Cherokee Falls, S.C.;
moved to Georgia and settled in Savannah;
engaged in cotton dealing;
served as tax collector of Chatham County, Ga.;
returned to South Carolina and settled in Columbia;
cashier of the State (branch) bank;
member of South Carolina house of representatives, 1826-1828 and 1832-1835;
elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1843, until his death in Washington, D.C., on April 3, 1848;
chairman, Committee on the Militia (Twenty-ninth Congress);
interment in the graveyard of the First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, S.C.
