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Cheves, Langdon

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Cheves, Langdon (1776–1857)

US representative. He was the South Carolina attorney general 1808–10, before being appointed to the US House of Representatives 1810–15; he succeeded Henry Clay as Republican Speaker of the House 1812–15.

He was born in Rocky River, South Carolina. Home-schooled, he became a lawyer in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1797. He declined cabinet and supreme court appointments to become president of the Bank of the United States 1819–22, returning to South Carolina to cultivate rice in 1829.



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