HAMMOND, JAMES H.
\hˈamənd], \hˈamənd], \h_ˈa_m_ə_n_d]\
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(1807-1864), editor of the Southern Times, a nullification paper, represented South Carolina in Congress from 1835 to 1836, was Governor of the State from 1842 to 1844, and a U.S. Senator from 1857 to 1861, when he delivered the pro-slavery speech which won for him the name of "Mudsill Hammond." He published "The Pro-Slavery Argument" and "Sketch of the Life of Calhoun."
By John Franklin Jameson