This honors his 250th birthday,

1734-1984. Born in Va., Aug. 14.

A frontiersman and Indian fighter.

By 1760 he had settled in S.C. He was

a member First Provincial Congress,

called in 1775 because war with

England threatened. The commander

of The 6th Reg., S.C., in 1776, The Brig.

Gen., S.C. Militia, known as the

"Gamecock of the American Revolution."

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War won, he returned to his Stateburg

plantation and business. He sought

pensions for veterans. He was elected

to; S.C. Assembly, 1782, Continental

Congress, 1783, U.S. Congress 1789 93,

1797-1801, and the U.S. Senate, 1801-

1810. Sumter served under our first

three presidents, Washington, Adams,

and Jefferson and known as a strong

States Rights man.

Marker is on Thomas Sumter Highway (U.S. 521), on the right when traveling north.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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