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HEMPHILL, John, senator, born in Chester district, South Carolina, in 1803; died in Richmond, Virginia, 4 January, 1862. He was graduated at Jefferson college in 1825, settled at Sumter, and edited a nullification paper in 1832-'3. He then removed to Texas, and for many years was chief justice of the supreme court of that state. In 1858 he was elected United States senator, serving from 1859 till his resignation and subsequent expulsion on 6 July, 1861. Judge Hemphill was one of the fourteen senators who on 6 January, 1861, met in caucus and adopted the resolutions recommending to their states immediate secession, "a general convention to be holden in Montgomery, Alabama" In February, 1861, he was deputy to the Confederate provisional congress.
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