Excerpt from Biographical Annals of the Civil Government of the United States: From Original and Official Sources Adams, James Hopkins; was born in South Carolina about 1811; graduated at Yale College in 1831; was a member of the Legislature and Senate of South Carolina; was Governor of. That State from 1855 to 1857. After the secession of South Carolina from the Union was one of the Commissioners ap pointed to confer with the President concerning United States property in South Carolina; died near Columbia, South Carolina, July 27, 1861. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.