SC Governors – Daniel Henry Chamberlain, 1874-1877

Biographical Overview

• Born: June 23, 1835 in West Brookfield, MA
  
• Died: April, 1907 in Charlottesville, VA
  
• Buried: Charlottesville, VA
  
• Religion:
• Political Party: Republican
  

Education

• Yale University - graduated 1862 with honors
  

Occupations

• Second Lieutenant, United States Army
• Planter
• Lawyer
• Author
• Professor of Constitutional Law, Cornell University, 1883-1897

Major Events and Accomplishments, 1874–1877

• Public expenditures were reduced
  
• 1876 – Governor Chamberlain was inaugurated for a second term after a count was taken that disregarded votes from Laurens and Edgefield counties
  
• 1877 – A complete count of the votes revealed that Governor Chamberlain had been defeated by Wade Hampton
  
• 1877 – Chamberlain left South Carolina during the withdrawal of federal troops
  

Other Government Positions

• Attorney General of South Carolina, 1868-1872
  

Other Accomplishments, Honors, Distinctions

• Chamberlain was appointed receiver of the South Carolina Railway by order of United States Circuit Court and worked successfully to revive it.
  –  Newspaper article about appointment - appeared in the New York Times on October 8, 1889 - Adobe Reader
  
• Chamberlain authored Charles Sumner and the Treaty of Washington
  

Web Resources

• Listing of records available at SC Archives and History Center
• Biographical information - South Carolina Encyclopedia by The Humanities Council
  
• Governor Chamberlain's Administration in South Carolina - article that appeared in the New Englander and Yale Review
  

Election Results