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Hugh Swinton Legaré (January 2, 1797–June 20, 1843) was an American lawyer and politician.
Born in
Huguenot and Scottish
ancestry, he grew up in South Carolina.
Partly on account of his inability to share in the amusements of his fellows by reason of a deformity due to
University of South Carolina at Columbia
) with the highest rank in his class and with a reputation throughout the state for scholarship and eloquence.
He studied the law for three years, did advanced work in Paris and Edinburgh in 1818 and 1819 and was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1822.
After practicing for a time in Charles, he became a member of the
Southern Review
from 1832 to 1836.
From 1830 to 1832 he was the attorney general of South Carolina, and he supported states' rights, he strongly opposed nullification. He was Attorney General until he was appointed chargé d'affaires to Brussels in 1832, serving there until 1836.
He was then elected to the
Attorney General of the United States and he served in that office until his death. He also served as Secretary of State ad interim from May 8, 1843
until his death.
He died in
Boston while attending ceremonies at the unveiling of the Bunker Hill Monument. He was first interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts
and was later reinterred in Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston.
Further reading
- The Writings of Hugh Swinton Legaré, South Carolina, 1846. (2 vols.)
Sources
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
