Benjamin Whitaker (surveyor general)

Benjamin Whitaker was surveyor general for the Province of South Carolina.[1] He was initially deputy surveyor (under James St. John),[2] but rose to attorney general (1721–1731),[3] judge of the court of vice-admiralty (1727–1732 and 1732–1736),[4] speaker of the assembly (1742–1744)[5] and chief justice (1739–1749).[6][7] He was removed from the role of chief justice for "being paralytic".[8]

He was regarded as one of the best lawyers of his time.[9][10]

Whitaker Street in Savannah, Georgia, is now named for him.[11]

  1. ^ "South Carolina: Early Surveying History". www.surveyhistory.org. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  2. ^ Migliazzo, Arlin C. (2007). To Make this Land Our Own: Community, Identity, and Cultural Adaptation in Purrysburg Township, South Carolina, 1732-1865. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-57003-682-8.
  3. ^ Smith, William Roy (1903). South Carolina as a Royal Province, 1710-1776. Macmillan. p. 412.
  4. ^ Smith, William Roy (1903). South Carolina as a Royal Province, 1719-1776. Macmillan. p. 414.
  5. ^ Smith, William Roy (1903). South Carolina as a Royal Province, 1719-1776. Macmillan. p. 415.
  6. ^ HAMBURGER, Philip (June 30, 2009). Law and Judicial Duty. Harvard University Press. p. 270. ISBN 978-0-674-03819-6.
  7. ^ Smith, William Roy (1903). South Carolina as a Royal Province, 1719-1776. Macmillan. p. 413.
  8. ^ The Statutes at Large of South Carolina. A.S. Johnston. 1836. p. 439.
  9. ^ Osgood, Herbert Levi (1925). The American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century. Columbia University Press. p. 119.
  10. ^ Witzig, Fred E. (April 30, 2018). Sanctifying Slavery and Politics in South Carolina: The Life of the Reverend Alexander Garden, 1685-1756. Univ of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-61117-846-3.
  11. ^ Cope, Tony (2016). It's Not That Lincoln. The Abercorn Press.