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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaPICKENS, Francis Wilkinson
(1805—1869)
PICKENS, Francis Wilkinson, (grandson of Andrew Pickens), a Representative from South Carolina; born on a plantation on the Toogoodoo River, St. Paul’s Parish, Colleton District, S.C., April 7, 1805; completed preparatory studies; attended Franklin College, Athens, Ga., and was graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Edgefield District in 1829; engaged in planting; member of the state house of representatives 1832-1833; elected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-third Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of George McDuffie; reelected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses and elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from December 8, 1834, to March 3, 1843; chairman, Committee on Foreign Affairs (Twenty-sixth Congress); member of the state senate 1844-1846; member of the Nashville southern convention in 1850; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1856; unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1857 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Andrew P. Butler; Minister to Russia 1858-1860; governor of South Carolina 1860-1862; died in Edgefield, Edgefield County, S.C., January 25, 1869; interment in Edgefield Cemetery.
Bibliography
Edmunds, John B., Jr. Francis W. Pickens and the Politics of Destruction.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
Edmunds, John B., Jr. Francis W. Pickens and the Politics of Destruction.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
Pickens, Francis W. Oration Delivered Before the Euphradian and Clariosophic Societies, on the Influence of Government Upon the Nature and Destiny of Man.
Columbia, S.C.: Press of Gibbes and Johnston, 1855.
———. Speech of the Hon. Francis W. Pickens, of South Carolina, Delivered in the House of Representatives, on the 23rd of May, 1836.
Washington: Printed by D. Green, 1836.
———. Speech of Hon. F. W. Pickens, Delivered Before a Public Meeting of the People of the District, held at Edgefield C.H., S.C., July 7, 1851.
Edgefield, S.C.: Printed at the Advertiser Office, 1851.
———. Speech of Hon. F. W. Pickens, of South Carolina, on the Bill to Distribute the Proceeds of the Public Lands Among the States.
Washington: N.p., 1841.
———. Speech of Mr. F. W. Pickens of South Carolina, on the Two Per Cent. Fund, the Cumberland Road, and the Power of the Government to Make Internal Improvements.
Washington: Printed by Blair and Rives, 1840.
———. Speech of Mr. Pickens, of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives, January 21, 1836, on the Abolition Question.
Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1836.
Youmans, Le Roy F. A Sketch of the Life and Services of Francis W. Pickens, of South Carolina.
Charleston, S.C.: New Job Presses, 187-[?].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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