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fication issue was predominant in South Caro-
lina, he resigned his place on the bench and re-
entered the legislature in order to combat the
radical state-rights doctrine. In spite of his ef-
forts, a state convention was called in the violence
of disunion sentiment that followed the tariff
act of 1832, Along with his cousin, Alfred
Huger, and a few other Unionists he won a seat
in this convention but realizing the futility of
opposition, he advised his associates to sit in
silent protest (O'Neall, post, p. 182) and, when
the convention was over, retired to private life.
In 1838 he returned to the state Senate for four
years. Unlike so many of the defeated Unionist
leaders, he was reconciled to Calhoun and drift-
ed with the majority in South Carolina. How-
ever, in December 1842, he became a candidate
for the United States Senate against Robert
Barnwell Rhett and was elected by the vote of
the old Unionists and those Calhoun supporters
who resented the Rhett clique. He found his serv-
ice in the Senate uncongenial and, in 1845, will-
ingly relinquished his seat to make a place for
Calhoun. After the compromise measures of
1850, radical elements in South Carolina once
more broke loose. Huger represented St. Philip's
and St Michael's parishes at the state-rights
convention of 1852 and used his influence in the
direction of moderation.

On November 26, 1800, he married Isabella
Middleton, daughter of Arthur Middleton, signer
of the Declaration of Independence. They had
ten children, eight of whom survived him.

[T. B. O'Neali, Biog. Sketches of Bench and Bar of
5. C. (1859), vol. I; S. C. Hist, and Geneal. Mag., Jan.
1906; T. T. Wells, The Hugers of S. C. (1931); Trans,
Huguenot Soc. of S. C., no. 4 (1897); A. S. Salley,
Jr., Marriage Notices in the S. C. Gazette (1902) ; J.
G. Van Deusen, Econ. Bases of Disunion in S. C.
(1928); C. S. Boucher, The Nullification Controversy
in S. C. (1916) ; L. A. White, R. B. Rhett (1931); The
Charleston Daily Courier> Aug. 22, 1854.]

J.G.V-D,

HUGER, FRANCIS KINLOCH (Sept. 17,
1773-Feb. 14, 1855), physician and soldier, was
born at Charleston, S. C. He was the son of
Benjamin and Mary (Kinloch) Huger and the
nephew of Isaac and John Huger [qq.v,,]. His
father was a friend of Lafayette, who, when he
landed in America, had been piloted by some of
Huger's negroes to their master's rice plantation
on North Island, Gear Georgetown. He was also
a member of the Provincial Congress in 1775,
major of a regiment of riflemen, and was killed
at Charleston on May n, 1779. Mary Huger
sent her son to England when he was but eight
years old. There he received a public school edu-
cation. He studied medicine in London under
the distinguished surgeon, John Hunter, and, in
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of the British army in Flanders. He then began
a continental tour. While in Vienna, he heard
that Lafayette was imprisoned at Olmiitz and, in
conjunction with Dr. Justus Eric Bollman, at-
tempted his liberation. The plot was temporarily
successful, although Lafayette was retaken on
the Austrian frontier. Huger and Bollman were
also captured and confined in prison for eight
months. Soon after his liberation Huger re-
turned to America. He completed his medical
education at the University of Pennsylvania,
where he presented his thesis on gangrene and
mortification. On May 15, 1797, he received the
degree of M.D. He was about to settle down as
a rice planter on the Waccamaw River, when the
threat of hostilities with France led him to ac-
cept, in 1798, the tender of a captaincy in the
United States army. He resigned his commis-
sion in September 1801. On Jan. 14, 1802, he
married Harriott Lucas Pinckney, daughter of
Gen. Thomas Pinckney [#.^.]. During the next
few years his energies were divided between his
summer home near Statesburg, his plantation on
the Santee, and the state legislature, in which he
served two terms. In the War of 1812 he was
commissioned lieutenant-colonel of artillery. He
was soon promoted to be colonel and was then
made adjutant-general on the staff of Gen. Thom-
as Pinckney. In 1826 he moved to Pendleton, S.
C., but toward the close of his life returned to
Charleston, where he died at the age of eighty-
one.

CE. P. Htiger, Statement of the Attempted Rescue of
Lafayette from "Olmuts" (1881 or 1882); Josiah
Quincy, Figures of the Past (1926) ; K. A. Varnhagcn
von Ense, Denkwurdigkeiten und Vermischte Schriften
(1837) ; T. T. Wells, The Hugers of S. C. (1931) J Old
Penn (a weekly mag. of the Univ. of Pa.), Oct. 30,
1909; Joseph Johnson, Traditions and Reminiscences
(1851) ; A. S. Salley, Jr., Marriage Notices in the S. C.
Gazette (1909) ; F, B. Heitman, Hist. Reg. and Diet, of
U. S. Army (1903), vol. I; $. C. Hist, and Geneal.
Mag.f July 1909 and Apr. 1920; D. E. H. Smith and
A. S. Salley, Jr., Reg. of St. Philip's Parish (1927);
Charleston Daily Couriert Feb. 15,1855.] j Q y_j).

HUGER, ISAAC (Mar. 19,1742/43-00117,
1797) t Revolutionary leader, was the son of
Daniel and Mary (Cordes) Huger and the
grandson of Daniel Huger, a Huguenot mer-
chant of good family, who emigrated to South
Carolina in 1685, settled on a plantation on the
Santee River, and acquired a good deal of
wealth. Isaac's father became one of the richest
men in the province and liberally educated his
five sons, all of whom performed distinguished
services during the American Revolution. The
first important public service of Isaac, the second
son, was during the Cherokee War of 1760,
when, with his brother, John [#.#.], he served
as lieutenant in a militia regiment In January

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