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William DuBose (politician)
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'''William DuBose''' (born 1786 or 1787, St. Stephen's Parish (modern [[Berkeley County, South Carolina|Berkeley County]], South Carolina); died near [[Pineville, South Carolina|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==
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|Newport]], [[Rhode Island]] and then at [[Yale University|Yale]], graduating in 1807. While at Yale he was a member of the [[Brothers in Unity|Society of Brothers in Unity]].<ref>A Catalogue of the Society of Brothers in Unity, Yale College, Founded 1768, Hitchcock & Stafford, 1841, p. 34.</ref> 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<ref>http://ift.tt/2Cs61S5 List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1808</ref> and in the state senate in 1825<ref>http://ift.tt/2A87zL8 List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1824-5</ref> and 1834-5.<ref>http://ift.tt/2Crrmeu List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1834-5</ref> He was a presidential elector in 1832, supporting [[John Floyd (Virginia politician)|John Floyd]] of the [[Nullifier Party]],<ref>The New-England Magazine, Volume 4 (1833), p. 71</ref> and a member of the South Carolina Nullification Convention in that year.<ref>Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Volume 1, E. Croswell, 1833, p. 26</ref> He served as lieutenant governor from December 1836 to December 1838.<ref>http://ift.tt/2A8n8SS Archive of William Dubose genealogical info</ref>
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.<ref>Debow's Review, vol. 4, New Orleans: Office of the Commercial Review, 1847, p. 338</ref>
==Personal life==
Dubose lived on the Bluford Plantation, near Pineville, which had come into the possession of the DuBoses from his mother's family, the Sinklers.<ref>http://ift.tt/2Crro66 Bluford Plantation info</ref> He married Laura Stevens in 1813, his step-mother's sister.<ref>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</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:People from Berkeley County, South Carolina]]
[[Category:Lieutenant Governors of South Carolina]]
==Life==
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|Newport]], [[Rhode Island]] and then at [[Yale University|Yale]], graduating in 1807. While at Yale he was a member of the [[Brothers in Unity|Society of Brothers in Unity]].<ref>A Catalogue of the Society of Brothers in Unity, Yale College, Founded 1768, Hitchcock & Stafford, 1841, p. 34.</ref> 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<ref>http://ift.tt/2Cs61S5 List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1808</ref> and in the state senate in 1825<ref>http://ift.tt/2A87zL8 List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1824-5</ref> and 1834-5.<ref>http://ift.tt/2Crrmeu List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1834-5</ref> He was a presidential elector in 1832, supporting [[John Floyd (Virginia politician)|John Floyd]] of the [[Nullifier Party]],<ref>The New-England Magazine, Volume 4 (1833), p. 71</ref> and a member of the South Carolina Nullification Convention in that year.<ref>Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Volume 1, E. Croswell, 1833, p. 26</ref> He served as lieutenant governor from December 1836 to December 1838.<ref>http://ift.tt/2A8n8SS Archive of William Dubose genealogical info</ref>
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.<ref>Debow's Review, vol. 4, New Orleans: Office of the Commercial Review, 1847, p. 338</ref>
==Personal life==
Dubose lived on the Bluford Plantation, near Pineville, which had come into the possession of the DuBoses from his mother's family, the Sinklers.<ref>http://ift.tt/2Crro66 Bluford Plantation info</ref> He married Laura Stevens in 1813, his step-mother's sister.<ref>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</ref>
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:People from Berkeley County, South Carolina]]
[[Category:Lieutenant Governors of South Carolina]]
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