Wade Hampton I

Wade Hampton I
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 4th district
In office March 4, 1803 – March 4, 1805
Preceded by	Richard Winn
Succeeded by	O'Brien Smith
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 2nd district
In office March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1797
Preceded by	John Hunter
Succeeded by	John Rutledge, Jr.
Personal details
Born	1752
Died	February 4, 1835
Political party	Democratic-Republican
Profession	planter, soldier, politician
Military service
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	Continental Army  United States Army
Years of service	1777 - 1781; 1808 - 1814
Rank	Major general
Battles/wars	American Revolutionary War 1811 German Coast Uprising War of 1812

Wade Hampton (1752 – February 4, 1835) was a South Carolina soldier, politician, two-term U.S. Congressman, and wealthy planter. He was the scion of the politically important Hampton family, which was influential in state politics almost into the 20th century. His second great-grandfather Thomas Hampton (1623–1690) was born in England and settled in the Virginia Colony.

Hampton served in the American Revolutionary War as a lieutenant colonel in a South Carolina volunteer cavalry regiment. He was a Democratic-Republican member of Congress for South Carolina from 1795 to 1797 and from 1803 to 1805, and a presidential elector in 1801.

He was appointed to the US Army as Colonel of Regiment of Light Dragoons in October 1808, and was promoted to Brigadier General in February 1809, appointed as the top military officer in the Territory of Orleans.

He used the U.S. military presence in New Orleans to suppress the 1811 German Coast Uprising, a slave revolt which he believed was a Spanish plot. In the same year, he purchased The Houmas, a sugar plantation in Ascension Parish, Louisiana. This may have been a gift for his daughter and son-in-law, as the son-in-law was managing the plantation by 1825.

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