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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaThomas De Lage SUMTER
(1809-1874)
SUMTER, Thomas De Lage,
(grandson of Thomas Sumter), a Representative from South Carolina;
born in Germantown, Pa., November 14, 1809; attended the common
schools at Edgehill, near Stateburg, S.C.; was graduated from the
United States Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., in 1835;
entered the United States Army as first lieutenant the same year
and served until 1841, attaining the rank of colonel; engaged in
the war against the Seminole Indians; moved to Stateburg, S.C.;
elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh
Congresses (March 4, 1839-March 3, 1843); was not a candidate for
renomination; engaged in teaching, surveying, and agricultural
pursuits; connected as agent with the South Carolina Railroad Co.;
died on his plantation, “South Mount,” near Stateburg,
S.C., July 2, 1874; interment in the private burial ground on his
estate.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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