David Flavel Jamison

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David Flavel Jamison

Birth
Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA
Death
14 Sep 1864 (aged 53)
Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
Burial
Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA
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Lawyer, jurist, author, and planter, Jamison represented Barnwell District in the S.C. House of Representatives from 1836 - 1848. He was a member of Orangeburg Presbyterian Church. In December 1860 Jamison was chosen president of South Carolina's Secession Convention, and later served as S.C. secretary of war. He died of yellow fever. There is an unconfirmed story that just before Sherman's invasion, Jamison's daughter Caroline Jenkins had her father's body disinterred and temporarily hidden in order to avoid desecration by Yankee soldiers.
Lawyer, jurist, author, and planter, Jamison represented Barnwell District in the S.C. House of Representatives from 1836 - 1848. He was a member of Orangeburg Presbyterian Church. In December 1860 Jamison was chosen president of South Carolina's Secession Convention, and later served as S.C. secretary of war. He died of yellow fever. There is an unconfirmed story that just before Sherman's invasion, Jamison's daughter Caroline Jenkins had her father's body disinterred and temporarily hidden in order to avoid desecration by Yankee soldiers.

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David Flavel Jamison

Soldier Statesman Scholar

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Born in Orange Parish;
December 14, 1810

Died in Charleston
September 14, 1864

President of the Secession Convention

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