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and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fi-ee Masonry, for the Southern jurisdiction of the United States, the Mother Council of the World. He was a Democratic representative from the fifth Tenn- essee district in the 49th--58th congresses, 18H5-- 1905, and became the leader of the minority in the house of representatives, and a member of the committee on ways and means in the 56th and 5~th congresses. He edited and compiled " Messaojes and Papers of the Presidents."

RICHARDSON, John Manly, soldier, was born at "Bloom Hill" Sumter district, S.C, March 13, 1831 ; son of William Guignard and Emma Corbet (Buford) Richardson and grand- son of Capt. William Richardson (q.v.) and of William and Frances (June) Buford. He was a student at the South Carolina Military academy, at the University of Virginia, and was graduated at Harvard university, Cambridge, Mass., B.S., 1854, and served while at Harvard as assistant in mathematics in the Lawrence Scientific school. He was mar- ried first to Levenia Eugenia, daughter of John Ragan King of South Carolina, and secondly to his cousin, Elizabeth Buford

(Richardson) Gaddy, widow of Dr. John T. Gaddy and daughter of the Rev. John Smythe Richardson. He was one of the founders (1856) with Col. Charles A. Mc- Daniel, of the Bowdon Collegiate institute. Ga., and later became professor of mathematics in the Hillsboro, N.C., Military academy, resigning in 1861 to enter the Confederate States army. He was commissioned major of the 11th N.C, volunteers, army of Northern Virginia, July 3, 1861, which regiment later became the 21st N.C. infantry. He was forced to resign on account of illness, January, 1863, and in February accepted the supei'inteudency and chair of mathematics in the Georgia Military institute. Marietta. On the restoration of his health in the fall of 1863 he resigned his position and declining a professor- ship in the University of Alabama accepted (iSov. 2, 1863) an appointment as officer on the general staff of the Confederate States army. He was so severely wounded at Winchester Sept, 19, 1864, as to necessitate the amputation of his left leg. He was president of collegiate institutes Bowdon, Ga., 1868-69; Carrollton, Ga., 1870- 77; Sulphur Springs, Tex., 1877-80; Leesburg, Tex,, 1880-85 ; and in 1886 took charge of the

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institute at Daingerfield, Tex,, which position he ■was soon compelled to resign on account of fail- ing health. He published two military works during the civil war, and after retiring from active educational work devoted much time to writing for the periodical press on legal, social, political, literary and scientific subjects. He died in Daingerfield, Tex., Feb. 4, 1898.

RICHARDSON, John Peter, governor of South Carolina, was born at Hickory Hill, Sumter dis- trict, S.C, April 14, 1801 ; son of John Peter and Floride (Peyre) Richardson ; grandson of Ricli- ard Richardson (q.v.), and nephew of James B. Richardson (governor of South Carolina, 1802-04). He was graduated at the College of South Caro- lina in 1819 and was admitted to the bar in 1821, practising in Fulton, S.C, and also engaging in planting. He was married to Juliana, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth (Eveleigh) Richardson, of Sumter, S.C. He represented his district as an anti-nuUifier in the state legislature, and was also a judge of the circuit court. He was a state- rights Democratic representative in the 24th con- gress, completing the term of Richard Mannings deceased, and was re-elected to the 35th congress, serving, 1836-39. He -was governor of South Carolina, 1840-43 ; a delegate to the Southern convention at Nashville, June and November, 1850 ; president of the Southern Rights association in 1851, and a member of the state conventions, of 1853 and 1S60, voting against secession on the first ballot. He died in Fulton, S.C, Jan. 24, 18G4.

RICHARDSON, John Smythe, jurist, was born at '-Bloom Hill," Sumter district, S.C, April 11, 1777 ; son of Capt, William (q.v.) and Ann Magdalen (Guignard) Richardson. He was educated in Charleston ; studied law under John J. Pringle ; was ad- mitted to the bar in 1799, and settled in practice in the Sum- ter district. He rep- resented Claremont county in the state legislature in 1810, originating the gen- eral suffrage bill, which later became a part of the state con- stitution, and served *\, as speaker of the ^^ii^\.kh\\ /'■ •

house in 1810, resign- '

ing to accept the attorney - generalship

of the state. He was elected a law judge, Dec. 18, 1818; declined the nomination of the Republican i)arty for representative in congress in 1830 ; was president judge of the court of ap- peals of South Carolina, 1841-46, and of the court