South Carolina's 8th congressional district

The 8th Congressional District of South Carolina was a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in South Carolina. It was created in 1803 as a result of the 1800 Census and eliminated in 1843 as a result of the 1840 Census. The district was last represented by Thomas De Lage Sumter.

[edit] Representatives

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	District Residence
John B. Earle	1803	1805	Democratic-Republican	Anderson County
Elias Earle	1805	1807	Democratic-Republican	Greenville
Lemuel J. Alston	1807	1811	Democratic-Republican	Greenville
Elias Earle	1811	1813	Democratic-Republican	Greenville
Samuel Farrow	1813	1815	Democratic-Republican	Spartanburg
Thomas Moore	1815	1817	Democratic-Republican	Spartanburg County
Wilson Nesbitt	1817	1819	Democratic-Republican	Spartanburg
John McCreary	1819	1821	Democratic-Republican	Chester
Joseph Gist	1821	1823	Democratic-Republican	Pinckneyville
John Carter	1823	1829	Jacksonian	Camden
James Blair	1829	1834^(a)	Jacksonian	Lancaster County
Richard Irvine Manning I	1834^(a)	1835	Jacksonian	Columbia
James Rogers	1835	1837	Jacksonian	Yorkville
John Peter Richardson II	1837	1839	Democrat	Spartanburg
James Rogers	1839	1841	Democrat	Yorkville
Thomas De Lage Sumter	1841	1843	Democrat	Stateburg

^(a) James Blair died in 1834; Manning succeeded him in a special election.

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