Julius C. Tingman
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Julius Caesar Tingman (1841? – December 7, 1917) was an American soldier and South Carolina state legislator.


Biography

Tingman was born to a woman named Mary Tingman in
Berkeley County, South Carolina Berkeley County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, its population was 229,861. Its county seat is Moncks Corner, South Carolina, Moncks Corner, and the larg ...
sometime in the late 1830s or early 1840s. He served as a corporal in the
U.S. Colored Troops United States Colored Troops (USCT) were Union Army regiments during the American Civil War that primarily comprised African Americans, with soldiers from other ethnic groups also serving in USCT units. Established in response to a demand fo ...
during the American Civil War. He was two-term member of the
South Carolina House of Representatives The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly. It consists of 124 representatives elected to two-year terms at the same time as U.S. congressional elections. Unlike many legislatures, seatin ...
during the Reconstruction era. Tingman was elected to represent
Charleston County Charleston County is located in the U.S. state of South Carolina along the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 408,235, making it the List of counties in South Carolina, third-mos ...
. In 1874 he introduced legislation to amend "the fence law so far as regards certain portions of Charleston; to repeal the game laws of the State; to compel dealers in
turpentine Turpentine (which is also called spirit of turpentine, oil of turpentine, terebenthine, terebenthene, terebinthine and, colloquially, turps) is a fluid obtainable by the distillation of resin harvested from living trees, mainly pines. Principall ...
, in Charleston County, to pay the laborers the Charleston market prices for crude turpentine." Tingman was the great-great-grandfather of comedians
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and
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.


References

African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era African-American state legislators in South Carolina People from South Carolina 1917 deaths 19th-century American slaves People of South Carolina in the American Civil War 19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly {{SouthCarolina-politician-stub