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Benjamin Faneuil Dunkin was a lawyer and politician who became chief justice of the
South Carolina Supreme Court The South Carolina Supreme Court is the highest court in the U.S. state of South Carolina. The court is composed of a Chief Justice and four Associate Justices.
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Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
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Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; (Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, Ma ...
on December 2, 1792, he was the son of Edmund Dunkin (died 1811), an immigrant from Ireland, and his wife Susanna Bethune, from a Scottish family settled in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating from
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
when he was eighteen, he moved to Charleston, South Carolina in 1811. He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and served as its Speaker in 1828 and 1829. Between 1865 and 1868, he was chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He died on December 5, 1874, at his home in Charleston, South Carolina. On January 18, 1820, in
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, he married Washington Sara Prentiss (1800-1870) and they had three children who all married and raised families: Alfred Huger Dunkin (1822-1906); Mary Augusta Dunkin (1826-1865); and Anna Washington Dunkin (1829-1878).


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