Milledge Luke Bonham
| Milledge Luke Bonham | |
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| Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Edgefield County | |
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In office November 27, 1865 – April 16, 1868 |
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| 70th Governor of South Carolina | |
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In office December 17, 1862 – December 18, 1864 |
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| Lieutenant | Plowden Weston |
| Preceded by | Francis Wilkinson Pickens |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Gordon Magrath |
| Member of the Confederate House of Representatives from South Carolina's 4th District | |
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In office February 18, 1862 – October 13, 1862 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | William Dunlap Simpson |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 4th district |
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In office March 4, 1857 – December 21, 1860 |
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| Preceded by | Preston S. Brooks |
| Succeeded by | James H. Goss (1868) |
| Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Edgefield District | |
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In office November 23, 1840 – November 25, 1844 |
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| Personal details | |
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December 25, 1813 Redbank, South Carolina |
| Died | August 27, 1890 (aged 76) White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America Confederate States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army Confederate States Army
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| Years of service | 1836, 1847–1848 (USA) 1861–1862, 1865 (CSA) |
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 Colonel (USA) Major General (Militia) Brigadier General (CSA)
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| Commands |
12th U.S. Infantry 1st Brigade, Confederate Army of the Potomac Bonham's Cavalry Brigade |
| Battles/wars | |
Seminole War
Mexican-American War
American Civil War
Milledge Luke Bonham (December 25, 1813 – August 27, 1890) was an American politician and Congressman who served as the 70th Governor of South Carolina from 1862 until 1864. He was a Confederate General during the American Civil War.
Milledge L. Bonham was born near Redbank (now Saluda), South Carolina, the son of Virginia native Capt. James Bonham and Sophie Smith Bonham, the niece of Capt. James Butler, who was the head of an illustrious South Carolina family. Milledge was a 1st cousin once removed to Andrew Pickens Butler. He attended private schools in the Edgefield District and at Abbeville. He graduated with honors from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1834. He served as Captain and adjutant general of the South Carolina Brigade in the Seminole War in Florida in 1836. That same year, his older brother James Butler Bonham perished at the Battle of the Alamo.
Bonham studied law and was admitted to the bar, in 1837, and commenced practice in Edgefield. During the Mexican-American War, he was lieutenant colonel (from March 1847) and colonel (from August 1847) of the 12th US Infantry Regiment. Two other members of his regiment, Major Maxcy Gregg and Captain Abner Monroe Perrin, would also become generals in the Civil War. After he returned home, Bonham was the major general of the South Carolina Militia. Entering politics, he served in the state house of representatives from 1840–1843. He married Ann Patience Griffin on November 13, 1845. Bonham was solicitor of the southern circuit of South Carolina from 1848–1857. He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth United States Congress (succeeding his cousin, Preston Smith Brooks) and the Thirty-sixth United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1857, until his retirement on December 21, 1860.
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