George William Dargan was a U.S. Representative

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 from South Carolina

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, great-grandson of Lemuel Benton

Lemuel Benton

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Born at "Sleepy Hollow," near Darlington, South Carolina

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, Dargan attended the schools of his native county and the South Carolina Military Academy.
He served in the Confederate States Army

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 throughout the Civil War

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He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1872 and practiced in Darlington, South Carolina

Darlington, South Carolina

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Dargan was elected to the State house of representatives in 1877.
He served as solicitor of the fourth judicial circuit of South Carolina in 1880.

Dargan was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1891).
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1890.
He resumed the practice of law.
He died in Darlington, South Carolina

Darlington, South Carolina

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, June 29, 1898.
He was interred in First Baptist Churchyard.

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