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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaAndrew PICKENS
(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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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