Samuel Farrow (June 8, 1762November 18, 1824) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
South Carolina
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.
Born in
Prince William County
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in the
Colony of Virginia
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The first effort to create an English settlement in the area was chartered in 1584 and established in 1585; the resulting Roanoke Colo ...
in 1762,
My Farrow & Collateral Family History
/ref> Farrow moved to South Carolina with his father's family, who settled in Spartanburg District in 1765.
He served in the Revolutionary War.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1793 and commenced practice in Spartanburg, South Carolina
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.
He also engaged in agricultural pursuits near Cross Anchor.
The 24th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
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1810–1812.
Farrow was elected as a Democratic-Republican
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to the Thirteenth Congress (March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1814.
He resumed the practice of law.
He also engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He served as member of the State house of representatives 1816–1819 and 1822–1823.
He died in Columbia, South Carolina
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, November 18, 1824.
He was interred in the family burial ground on his plantation, near the battlefield of Musgrove Mill, South Carolina.
Sources
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1824 deaths
1762 births
People of South Carolina in the American Revolution
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina
19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives
19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly