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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
Pickens, the first war governor of South Carolina, was born in St. Paul's parish, that State, April 7, 1805, the son of Gov. Andrew Pickens, and grandson of Gen. Andrew Pickens, a soldier of the Revolution. He was educated at Athens college and South Carolina college, was admitted to the bar in 1829, and in 1832 was elected to the lower house of the State legislature. Attaining prominence in political affairs, he was elected to Congress on the nullification ticket, and took his seat in December, 1834, serving from that time until March, 1843. The following year he served in the State senate. Returning to politics in 1850 he became a delegate to the Nashville convention, and in 1856 was a delegate to the Democratic national convention. By President Buchanan he was appointed minister to Russia in 1858. At the close of the administration he came home and was elected governor on the eve of the outbreak of war. After one term of the office, December, 1860, to December, 1862, he retur