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Wade Hampton III (March 28, 1818 – April 11, 1902) was the scion of one of the richest families in the ante-bellum South, owning thousands of acres of cotton land in South Carolina and Mississippi, as well as thousands of enslaved workers.
Wade Hampton (c. 1750 – February 4, 1835) was an American military officer, planter and politician. A two-term U.S. congressman, he may have been the wealthiest planter , and one of the largest slave holders in the United States, at the time of his death.
The tower was built on the site of the former Wade Hampton Hotel which was imploded in July 1985. This modern building exterior is finished in double-paned tinted glass with horizontal bands of anodized aluminum color panels. The 25-story tower was completed in 1987 during a Columbia high-rise building boom, as the AT&T Building.
Wade Hampton I (1752–1835) was a lieutenant colonel in the American Revolutionary War, brigadier general in the War of 1812, a congressman, and a wealthy planter.When he died in 1835, he was considered one of the wealthiest men in America [3] with plantations in Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina; he was the wealthiest planter in the Southern United States.
1 Early life. 2 Career. 3 Personal life. 4 References. ... William Wade Hampton (February 1858 – December 14, 1930) was an American politician from North Carolina.
Wade Hampton I (1752–1835), American soldier in Revolutionary War and War of 1812 and U.S. congressman Wade Hampton II (1791–1858), American plantation owner and soldier in War of 1812 Wade Hampton III (1818–1902), American Civil War soldier and politician; elected Governor and Senator of South Carolina, opponent of Reconstruction
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Wade Hampton III. The 1878 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1878 to select the governor of South Carolina. Wade Hampton III was renominated by the Democrats and ran against no organized opposition in the general election to win reelection for a second two-year term.