Benjamin Franklin Perry

Benjamin Franklin Perry

Infobox Governor
name=Benjamin Franklin Perry


caption=
order=72nd
office=Governor of South Carolina
term_start=June 30, 1865
term_end=November 29, 1865
lieutenant=
predecessor=Andrew Gordon Magrath
successor=James Lawrence Orr
birth_date=Birth date|1805|11|20
birth_place=Pickens County, South Carolina
death_date=Death date and age|1886|12|3|1805|11|20
death_place=Greenville, South Carolina
spouse=
profession=
party=Democratic
religion=
footnotes=

Benjamin Franklin Perry (November 20, 1805ndash December 3, 1886) was a provisional Governor of South Carolina appointed by President Andrew Johnson in 1865 after the end of the American Civil War.

Early life and career

Perry was born in Pickens County and educated at preparatory schools in Asheville, North Carolina. He was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1827, but pursued journalism and became the editor of the "Greenville Mountaineer" in 1832. The paper was adamantly against nullification and Perry was able to parlay his influence by being elected as a delegate to both the Union Convention and the Nullification Convention.

Political career

In 1836, Perry was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and served for six years until 1842. He gained election to the South Carolina Senate in 1844, but returned to the House of Representatives in 1849 and remained a member until 1860. As the secession movement was sweeping the state in the years prior to the Civil War, Perry founded "The Southern Patriot" in 1851 to counter and spread a unionist message. Even though Perry was adamantly against secession, he embraced the state when it did secede and rallied the residents in the Upstate in favor of the Confederate cause. He was again elected to the House of Representatives in 1862 and served until being appointed as a Confederate States District Judge in 1864.

After the war in 1865, President Andrew Johnson appointed Perry as the provisional Governor of South Carolina because of the strong unionist views he had held prior to the war. Perry was directed by the president to enroll voters and to lead the state in the writing of a new state constitution. The delegates at the constitutional convention largely followed Perry's guidelines for the constitution, but they strayed by adopting the black codes to prevent black suffrage. President Johnson, as well as several leading statesmen of South Carolina, urged the granting of suffrage to blacks while also including a property qualification clause. A property qualification would essentially disenfranchise all blacks without giving the appearance of impropriety towards blacks and prevent the imposition of harsh terms by the Radical Republicans.

Later life

Upon the completion of the constitution, elections were called and Perry sought election to the U.S. Senate. He was elected along with John Lawrence Manning, but the Radical Republicans in charge of Congress refused to seat them. In 1872, he unsuccessfully ran for the 4th congressional district House seat against Republican Alexander S. Wallace. His son, William Hayne Perry, did successfully gain election to the House and was a member from 1885 to 1891. Perry died in Greenville on December 3, 1886 and was interned at Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery.

External links

* [http://www.sciway.net/hist/governors/perry.html SCIway Biography of Benjamin Franklin Perry]
* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=aefbd049cb48a010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD NGA Biography of Benjamin Franklin Perry]


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