Background
He was born in the Waxhaw settlement, Lancaster County, South Carolina to Sarah Douglass and William Blair.
United States representative politician
He was born in the Waxhaw settlement, Lancaster County, South Carolina to Sarah Douglass and William Blair.
He engaged in planting and was also the sheriff of Lancaster District. Blair was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and served from March 4, 1821, to May 8, 1822, when he resigned. He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through Twenty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1829, until his death in Washington, District of Columbia, on April 1, 1834.
Under date of December 24, 1833, John Quincy Adams records in his diary that Blair "had knocked down and very severely beaten Duff Green, editor of the Telegraph.." Diary (New York, Longmans, Green, 1929) p.
434. He paid "three hundred dollars fine for beating and breaking the bones" of Green. operation cit., p. 450.
Under date of April 2, 1834, John Quincy Adams records in his diary that Blair "shot himself last evening at his lodgings.. cit. p.
434.
He was buried in Congressional Cemetery. His tombstone inscription includes his command as General of the South Carolina 5th Militia Brigade.
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