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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South Carolina / USJames Lawrence ORR
(1822-1873)
ORR, James Lawrence, a
Representative from South Carolina; born in Craytonville, Anderson
County, S.C., May 12, 1822; attended the public schools, and was
graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in
1842; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice
in Anderson, S.C., in 1843; engaged in newspaper work; member of
the State house of representatives 1844-1847; elected as a Democrat
to the Thirty-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1849-March 3, 1859); chairman, Committee on Indian Affairs
(Thirty-third Congress); Speaker of the House of Representatives
(Thirty-fifth Congress); was not a candidate for renomination in
1858; resumed the practice of law at Craytonville; member of the
southern rights convention held in Charleston, S.C., in 1851;
delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Charleston in
1860; member of the secession convention in 1860; one of three
commissioners sent to Washington, D.C., to treat with the Federal
Government for the surrender of the forts in Charleston Harbor;
Member of the Confederate Senate in 1861; served in the Confederate
Army during the Civil War; special commissioner sent to President
Johnson to negotiate the establishment of provisional government
for the State of South Carolina in 1865; member of the State
constitutional convention in 1865; elected Governor of South
Carolina as a Republican in 1866; president of the State convention
at Columbia in July 1866; delegate to the Union National Convention
at Philadelphia in August 1866; judge of the eighth judicial
circuit 1868-1870; member of the Republican State convention in
August 1872; delegate to the Republican National Convention in
1872; appointed by President Grant as Minister to Russia in
December 1872; died in St. Petersburg, Russia, May 5, 1873;
interment in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Anderson, S.C.
Bibliography
Leemhuis, Roger P. James L. Orr and the Sectional Conflict.
Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1979.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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