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