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Arnoldus Vanderhorst

American politician

Arnoldus Vanderhorst
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American politician

FieldValue
nameArnoldus Vanderhorst
imageArnoldus Vanderhorst (South Carolina Governor).jpg
caption1856 portrait by Henry Breintnall Bounetheau
order38th
officeGovernor of South Carolina
termstartDecember 17, 1794
termendDecember 8, 1796
predecessorWilliam Moultrie
successorCharles Pinckney
lieutenantLewis Morris
office2Mayor of Charleston, South Carolina
term31785 – 1786
predecessor3Richard Hutson
successor3John Faucheraud Grimke
term21790 – 1792
predecessor2Thomas Jones
successor2John Huger
office4Member of the South Carolina Senate from Christ Church Parish
term4August 31, 1779 – January 1, 1787
office5Member of the South Carolina General Assembly from St. Phillip's and St. Michael's Parish
term5March 25, 1776 – October 17, 1778
birth_date
birth_placeChrist Church Parish, Mount Pleasant, Province of South Carolina
death_date
death_placeKiawah Island, South Carolina
resting_placeSt. Michael's Churchyard, Charleston, South Carolina
professionplanter

Arnoldus Vanderhorst (; March 21, 1748 – January 29, 1815) was an American military officer and planter. He was a general of the South Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War and served as the governor of South Carolina from 1794 to 1796.

Early life and career

36 Meeting Street, Charleston, ca. 1740 is associated with many eminent South Carolina family names: DeSaussure, Vanderhorst, Brunch, Rivers, Kershaw and Pelzer

Born in Christ Church Parish, Vanderhorst took up planting at his plantation on the eastern half of Kiawah Island in the Lowcountry. He participated in the Revolutionary War as an officer under the command of Francis Marion. During the war, he also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1776 to 1780 and in the South Carolina Senate from 1780 to 1786. After his service in the state Senate, Vanderhorst was elected mayor of Charleston for two terms. He was elected mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, on September 12, 1785.

Governorship

In 1794, he was elected by the General Assembly as a Federalist to be Governor of South Carolina. During his administration, Vanderhorst pressed the legislature for the revision of the criminal code because the sentences were so harsh that jurors would grant acquittal. In addition, he advocated for a prison system similar to that of the state of Pennsylvania instead of the state jails that "were of medieval barbarity."

He also proposed the need for a state penitentiary. Later the state penitentiary named Central Correction Institution that was open until 1994.

Later life

After leaving the governorship in 1796, he returned to his plantation on Kiawah Island where slaves he owned cultivated sea island cotton. Vanderhorst died on January 29, 1815, and he was buried at the St. Michael's churchyard in Charleston.

Archives

Papers of the Vanderhorst family are held at the South Carolina Historical Society{{cite web |access-date=11 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415183808/http://www.southcarolinahistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Vanderhorst-Family-1169.00.pdf |archive-date=15 April 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=11 April 2014

References

References

  1. (September 15, 1785). "Charleston, September 15". State Gazette of South-Carolina.
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