George mcduffie biography

In , George McDuffie was elected to represent the Edgefield District in the House of Representatives of the:
- 23rd General Assembly that met from

In , he was selected to replace his law partner, Eldred Simkins, who declined to run for re-election in the U.S.

House of Representatives, and he won the election to represent the South Carolina 5th Congressional District in the 17th U.S. Congress, and he served until , when he retired due to poor health.

In he published a pamphlet in which strict states' rights were strongly denounced; yet in he became one of the greater nullificationists.

The change seems to have been gradual, and to have been determined in part by the influence of John Caldwell Calhoun. When, after , the old Democratic-Republican party split into factions, he followed Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren in opposing the Panama Congress and the policy of making Federal appropriations for internal improvements.

He did not hesitate, however, to differ from Jackson on t