CHEVES, LANGDON

chĭˈvĭs, 1776–1857, American statesman, b. Abbeville District (now Abbeville co.), S.C. Admitted to the bar in 1797, he became one of the leading lawyers of Charleston. In the U.S. House of Representatives (1810–15) he was one of the "war hawks" who agitated for hostilities with Britain. He served as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and in 1814 succeeded Henry Clay as speaker. In this capacity Cheves cast the deciding vote against Alexander J. Dallas's bill for establishing the second Bank of the United States, but it was chartered anyway in 1816. The bank was badly mismanaged until Cheves, elected a director and president in 1819, restored its credit. On his resignation in 1822, Nicholas Biddle took over the bank.

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books on: Cheves Langdon  - 186 results

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Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810-1879
Book by Leigh Fought; University of Missouri Press, 2003
Subjects: Authors, American--19th Century--Biography, Mccord, Louisa Susanna Cheves--1810-1879, Plantation Life--South Carolina, Slavery--Southern States, South Carolina--Intellectual Life--19th Century, Women And Literature--Southern States--History--19th Century, Women Plantation Owners--South Carolina--Biography, Women--Southern States--History--19th Century
...carried out box after box of the Langdon Cheves Papers, both documents and microfiche...and Her Needs, 131 32. States, Langdon Cheves. Through him, through her husband...and back, as her family followed Langdon Chevess political career. In 1829, the...
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The Decennial Publications of the University of Chicago: The Second Bank of the United States
Book by Ralph C. H. Catterall; University of Chicago Press, 1903
...CHAPTER IV. The Administration of Langdon Cheves 68...considered absolutely necessary. Speaker Cheves, though allowing Eppes to retain...Lowndes, and supported by Speaker Cheves. Calhoun had at first been selected...
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Love of Order: South Carolina's First Secession Crisis
Book by John Barnwell; University of North Carolina Press, 1982
Subjects: Secession--South Carolina, South Carolina--Politics And Government--1775-1865
...consecutive legislatures. But Langdon Cheves, the cooperationists senior statesman...in it." But independent-minded Langdon Cheves, who rejected nullification as...produce fierce resentment. 37 Chevess prophecy was fulfilled. In the...
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The Counterrevolution of Slavery: Politics and Ideology in Antebellum South Carolina
Book by Manisha Sinha; University of North Carolina Press, 2000
Subjects: Political Culture--South Carolina--History--19th Century, Secession--South Carolina, Slaveholders--South Carolina--Political Activity, Slavery--Political Aspects--South Carolina--History--19th Century, South Carolina--Politics And Government--1775-1865
...complaints against the tariff. Langdon Cheves, who along with Calhoun and Lowndes...lowcountry aristocrats such as Drayton, Langdon Cheves, and Hugh Swinton Legare, would...as their erstwhile opponents. Cheves, an early advocate of southern...
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Economic Bases of Disunion in South Carolina
Book by John G. Van Deusen; Columbia University Press, 1928
Subjects: South Carolina--Economic Conditions, South Carolina--Politics And Government--1775-1865, Tariff--United States--History, United States--Economic Policy, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes, United States--Politics And Government--1815-1861
...improvement" people for aiding the tariffites. 1 Langdon Cheves held himself aloof from both parties. He certainly...Oct. 5, 1832. Cf. pamphlet, Letters of the Hon. Langdon Cheves. In 1830 Cheves thought a convention would result...
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Traditional Cattle-Herding Practices in Southern Florida
Journal article by John Solomon Otto; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 97, 1984
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...privately printed. Chalker, Fussell 1970 Pioneer Days Along the Ocmulgee . Carrollton: Thomasson Printing. Cheves, Langdon, ed. 1897 Collections of the South Carolina Historical Society . Vol. V. Columbia: Historical Society...
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Traditional Cattle-Herding Practices in Southern Florida
Journal article by John Solomon Otto; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 97, 1984
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...privately printed. Chalker, Fussell 1970 Pioneer Days Along the Ocmulgee . Carrollton: Thomasson Printing. Cheves, Langdon, ed. 1897 Collections of the South Carolina Historical Society . Vol. V. Columbia: Historical Society...
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Economic Perspective on the Political History of the Second Bank of the United States
Journal article by Edward J. Green; Economic Perspectives, Vol. 27, 2003
Subjects: Banking industry--Economic aspects, Banking industry--History, Second Bank of the United States--Economic policy, Second Bank of the United States--History, Second Bank of the United States--Powers and duties
...the two subsequent presidents, Langdon Cheves and Nicholas Biddle, was elected...Panic of 1819. Furthermore, when Langdon Cheves became president of the bank at...ill. Wright, David McC., 1953, "Langdon Cheves and Nicholas Biddle: New data...
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Revolution or Counterrevolution?: The Political Ideology of Secession in Antebellum South Carolina
Journal article by Manisha Sinha; Civil War History, Vol. 46, 2000
Subjects: Abolitionists--Analysis, Democracy--Analysis, Secession--Analysis, Slavery--Analysis, Southern States--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, United States--History
...property rights in slaves." In 1850, Langdon Cheves, a venerable Carolinian secessionist...104-6; Speech of the Honorable Langdon Cheves, Delivered Before The Delegates...17-19; Archie Vernon Huff Jr. Langdon Cheves of South Carolina (Columbia: University...
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The Landscape of Disease: Swamps and Medical Discourse in the American Southeast, 1800-1880
Journal article by Megan Kate Nelson; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Health--Analysis, Health--History, Muir, John, United States--History
...in the narrative of a young Savannah doctor named Langdon Cheves. Cheves survived the yellow fever epidemic in his...Physician," Memphis. Tennessee, September 25, 1878, Langdon Cheves Papers, Collection #144, Georgia Historical Society...
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The Peculiar Intellectual: In the Antebellum South, Scholars Made Serious Contributions to Their Fields, at Least until They Turned to Defending Slavery
Magazine article by Richard E. Nicholls; American Scholar, Vol. 74, Winter 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Conjectures of Order: Intellectual Life and the American South (Book)--Book reviews
...OBrien says, "Nott roared with the best or worst of them." Louisa McCord makes another instructive case. Her father was Langdon Cheves, who served as speaker of the House of Representatives. Wealthy in her own right, in 1840 she married David McCord...


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encyclopedia articles on: Cheves Langdon  - 3 results

 
 
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Cheves, Langdon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHEVES, LANGDON chi vis, 1776 1857, American statesman...Henry Clay as speaker. In this capacity Cheves cast the deciding vote against Alexander...1816. The bank was badly mismanaged until Cheves, elected a director and president in 1819...
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Bank of the United States
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...initial period of difficulty during the presidency (1816 19) of William Jones, the bank was placed on a sound basis by Langdon Cheves (1819 22). It became especially prosperous under the management of Nicholas Biddle , but was criticized by state...
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War of 1812
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...allies of Great Britain). Among the prominent "war hawks" in the 12th Congress were Henry Clay , John C. Calhoun , Langdon Cheves , Felix Grundy , Peter Porter, and others, who managed to override the opposition of John Randolph and of the...


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