South Carolina's 3rd congressional district

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The 3rd Congressional District of South Carolina is a congressional district in western South Carolina bordering both Georgia and North Carolina. It includes all of Abbeville, Anderson, Edgefield, Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick, Oconee, Pickens and Saluda counties and approximately half of Aiken county. The district is mostly rural, but much of the economy revolves around the manufacturing centers of Anderson and Greenwood.

J. Gresham Barrett, elected in 2002, presently represents this heavily Republican district.

[edit] Representatives

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	District Residence
Benjamin Huger	1803	1805	Federalist	Georgetown
David R. Williams	1805	1809	Democratic-Republican	Darlington County
Robert Witherspoon	1809	1811	Democratic-Republican	Mayesville
David R. Williams	1811	1813	Democratic-Republican	Darlington County
Theodore Gourdin	1813	1815	Democratic-Republican	Pineville
Benjamin Huger	1815	1817	Federalist	Georgetown
James Ervin	1817	1821	Democratic-Republican	Darlington
Thomas R. Mitchell	1821	1823	Jacksonian	Georgetown
Robert B. Campbell	1823	1825	Jacksonian	Brownsville
Thomas R. Mitchell	1825	1829	Jacksonian	Georgetown
John Campbell	1829	1831	Jacksonian	Brownsville
Thomas R. Mitchell	1831	1833	Jacksonian	Georgetown
Thomas Singleton	1833	1833(a)	Nullifier	Kingstree
Robert B. Campbell	1834(a)	1835	Nullifier	Brownsville
John K. Griffin	1835	1837	Nullifier	Clinton
Franklin H. Elmore	1837	1839	State Rights Democrat	Walterboro
John K. Griffin	1839	1841	Democrat	Clinton
Patrick C. Caldwell	1841	1843	Democrat	Newberry
Joseph A. Woodward	1843	1853	Democrat	Winnsboro
Laurence M. Keitt	1853	1856(b)	Democrat	St. Matthews
	1856(b)	1860
Civil War - Occupation and Reconstruction
Manuel S. Corley	1868	1869	Republican	Lexington
Solomon L. Hoge	1869(c)	1871	Republican	Columbia
Robert B. Elliott	1873	1874(d)	Republican	Columbia
Lewis C. Carpenter	1874(d)	1875	Republican	Charleston
Solomon L. Hoge	1875	1877	Republican	Columbia
D. Wyatt Aiken	1877	1887	Democrat	Cokesbury
James S. Cothran	1887	1891	Democrat	Abbeville
George Johnstone	1891	1893	Democrat	Newberry
Asbury C. Latimer	1893	1903	Democrat	Belton
Wyatt Aiken	1903	1917	Democrat	Abbeville
Fred H. Dominick	1917	1933	Democrat	Newberry
John C. Taylor	1933	1939	Democrat	Anderson
Butler B. Hare	1939	1947	Democrat	Saluda
W.J. Bryan Dorn	1947	1949	Democrat	Greenwood
James B. Hare	1949	1951	Democrat	Saluda
W.J. Bryan Dorn	1951	1974(e)	Democrat	Greenwood
Butler Derrick	1975	1995	Democrat	Edgefield
Lindsey Graham	1995	2003	Republican	Central
J. Gresham Barrett	2003	present	Republican	Westminster

^(a) Thomas Singleton died in 1833; Campbell succeeded him in a special election.
^(b) Laurence Keitt resigned on July 16, 1856 following his censure by the House of Representatives the day before; he was reelected in the ensuing special election and returned to the seat on August 6, 1856.
^(c) Solomon Hoge successfully contested the election of J.P. Reed in 1868 and filled the seat on April 8, 1869.
^(d) Robert Elliott resigned in 1874; Carpenter succeeded him in a special election.
^(e) W.J. Bryan Dorn resigned on December 31, 1974 before his term expired in 1975; the seat remained vacant until filled by Butler Derrick on January 3, 1975.

Source: Congressional Biographical Directory

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