Elias Earle | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina | |
| In office March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821 | |
| Preceded by | John Taylor |
| Succeeded by | John Wilson |
| Constituency | 7th district |
| In office March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1815 | |
| Preceded by | Lemuel J. Alston |
| Succeeded by | John Taylor |
| Constituency | 7th district (1813–1815) 8th district (1811–1813) |
| In office March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1807 | |
| Preceded by | John B. Earle |
| Succeeded by | Lemuel J. Alston |
| Constituency | 8th district |
| Member of the South Carolina Senate | |
| In office 1800 | |
| Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives | |
| In office 1794–1797 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 19, 1762 Frederick County, Virginia Colony, British America |
| Died | May 19, 1822 (aged 59) Centerville, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Resting place | Greenville, South Carolina |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican (1823–1825) |
| Other political affiliations | Jacksonian (after 1825) |
| Profession | Ironmaster |
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Elias Earle (June 19, 1762 – May 19, 1823) was a United States representative from South Carolina. Born in Frederick County in the Colony of Virginia, he attended private school and moved to Greenville County, South Carolina, in September 1787. He was one of the earliest ironmasters of the South, and prospected and negotiated in the iron region of Georgia.
Earle was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1794 to 1797 and was a member of the South Carolina Senate in 1800. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Ninth Congress (March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1807), was elected to the Twelfth and Thirteenth Congresses (March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1815), and was again elected to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821). He died in Centerville, South Carolina, in 1823; interment was in Old Earle Cemetery, Buncombe Road, Greenville, South Carolina.[1]
- ^ Johnson, Rossiter; Brown, John Howard, eds. (1906). The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Vol. III. Boston: American Biographical Society. Retrieved March 16, 2022 – via Internet Archive.