Background
Felder, John Myers was born on July 7, 1782 in Orangeburg District, South Carolina, United States.
Felder, John Myers was born on July 7, 1782 in Orangeburg District, South Carolina, United States.
He graduated from Yale University in 1804, a roommate and close friend of John Caldwell Calhoun.
After graduation, he studied at Litchfield Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1808. He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1812. In 1830, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives and served in Congress for four years, first as a Jacksonian and from 1833 as a Nullifier.
After declining renomination in 1834, he went back to South Carolina, where the voters of Orangeburg returned him to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1840.
He served there until his death on September 1, 1851. Felder retired from the legal profession in 1830, and became a prosperous mill owner and planter.
Jacksonian Democracy, Democratic Party.
Member South Carolina. Ho; member United States House