RICHARDSON, JOHN PETER, a Representative from South Carolina; born at Hickory Hill, S.C.,
April 14, 1801; was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1819;
studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Fulton, S.C.;
member of the State house of representatives, 1825-1833; judge of the circuit
court; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Richard I. Manning; reelected as a Democrat to
the Twenty-fifth Congress and served from December 19, 1836, to March 3, 1839;
Governor of South Carolina 1840-1842; died in Fulton (later Pinewood), Sumter
County, S.C., January 24, 1864; interment in Richardson Cemetery, Clarendon
County, S.C.
