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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaPICKENS, Andrew
(1739—1817)
PICKENS, Andrew, (grandfather of Francis Wilkinson Pickens), a Representative from South Carolina; born in Paxton, Bucks County, Pa., September 13, 1739; attended the common schools; moved with his parents to the Waxhaw settlement in South Carolina in 1752; served in the provincial militia in the campaign against the Cherokee Indians in 1760; entered the Revolutionary Army as captain of militia and attained the rank of brigadier general; commanded an expedition against the Cherokee Indians in 1782; member of the state house of representatives 1781-1794; one of the commissioners named to settle the boundary line between South Carolina and Georgia in 1787; member of the state constitutional convention in 1790; elected as an Anti-Administration candidate to the Third Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1795); appointed major general of militia in 1795; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1797; member of the state house of representatives 1800-1812; declined the nomination for governor in 1812; died in Tomassee, Pendleton District, S.C., August 11, 1817; interment in Old Stone Churchyard, near Pendleton, S.C.
Bibliography
Waring, Alice Noble. The Fighting Elder: Andrew Pickens, 1739-1817
. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1962.
Bodie, Idella. The Wizard Owl
. Orangeburg, S.C.: Sandlapper, 2003.
Busha, Charles H. Andrew Pickens, 1739-1817: American Patriot on the Carolina Frontier
. Pickens, S.C.: Pickens County Historical Society, 1982.
Pickens, Andrew Lee. Skyagunsta, the Border Wizard Owl, Major-General Andrew Pickens (1739-1817)
. Greenville, S.C.: Observer Printing Co. 1934.
———. The Wizard Owl of the Southern Highlands, a Life of General Pickens of the Revolution thru the Battle of Cowpens
. Greenville, S.C.: Observer Printing Company, 1933.
Waring, Alice Noble. The Fighting Elder: Andrew Pickens, 1739-1817.
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1962.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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