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Jamison was born on December 14, 1810, in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, the son of Van de Vastine Jamison, a physician and planter of Orangeburg District, and his wife, Elizabeth (Rumph) Jamison. He was descended from Henry Jamison, of Scottish birth, who came from the province of Ulster, Ireland, to Philadelphia about 1708.
From Platt Springs Academy in Lexington District, David entered the sophomore class at the South Carolina College, but did not graduate.
Jamison practised law for two years, but in 1832 he gave up his practice and was for the rest of his life a planter. In 1836 he was elected to the state House of Representatives from Orange Parish, Orangeburg District, and served in that body till 1848. For almost the whole of this period he was chairman of the committee on military affairs. In his fourth term he introduced the bill for the formation of the South Carolina Military Academy.
In 1844 Jamison voted with the minority against the resolutions declaring that the annexation of Texas was of paramount importance and the tariff of 1842 unconstitutional. It was probably this attitude that led to his retirement; in the election of 1846 he ran second, instead of first as in 1844, and in 1848 gave place to the fiery Lawrence M. Keitt. Meanwhile Jamison had been pursuing what was perhaps his chief interest - historical studies. In the Southern Quarterly Review for January and July 1843, January, April, and October 1844, and October 1849 there were reviews of Guizot, Mignet, Herder, Michelet, and Lamartine which either by signature or internal evidence are to be ascribed to him. They are lengthy and scholarly essays, elaborately fortified with references, chiefly to French authors and sources. To the Southern planter the lessons of modern European history seemed plain, and it was doubtless these studies as much as the long controversy over the Wilmot Proviso that matured his political philosophy. In articles for the Review for September and November 1850 he argued that slavery was the indispensable basis for a successful republic, and that the abolition campaign and the excesses of Northern democracy made separation as necessary as it was desirable.
Jamison was a delegate to the Nashville Convention of 1850, and during 1851 and 1852 was active in the movement for separate action by South Carolina. In 1859 he bought a plantation in Barnwell District and became the near neighbor as he was already the intimate friend of William Gilmore Simms. He represented Barnwell in the secession convention. His election on the fourth ballot to the presidency of this body, the most distinguished in the history of the state, he regarded as the crowning point in his life. From December 1860 to the following April he was a member of the Executive Council. In December 1862 he was appointed presiding judge for the military court of Beauregard's corps, holding this position till his death of yellow fever on September 14, 1864. He was buried at Orangeburg. Jamison used the interval of release from public service in 1861 and 1862 to finish his Life and Times of Bertrand Du Guesclin (2 vols. , London and Charleston, 1864). Even during the great struggle of his own people, the stately figures and stirring episodes of the Hundred Years' War retained their appeal for him, and the footnotes in the volumes, many of them to rare and difficult sources, bear witness to his patient industry and careful analysis.
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Jamison was President of South Carolina's Secession Convention (1860).
Jamison married his first cousin, Elizabeth Ann Carmichael Rumph, in 1832.
