14 Facts About James Ladson

James Henry Ladson was an American politician, wealthy plantation owner from Charles Town and officer of the American Revolution.

James Ladson served as the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1792 to 1794, and was a member of the South Carolina state Senate from 1800 to 1804.

James Ladson was born in 1753 in Charleston to a prominent South Carolinian family of English origin.

James Ladson was the son of William Ladson and Anne Gibbes.

James Ladson's mother was the daughter of the prominent colonial official Colonel John Gibbes and the granddaughter of the colonial governor Robert Gibbes.

James Ladson was a 2nd great-grandson of Henry Woodward, the first British colonist in Carolina.

James Ladson served as an officer during the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1780, first alongside his childhood friend Thomas Pinckney and eventually as a captain in the 1st regiment of the Continental Line.

James Ladson served as aide de camp to General Benjamin Lincoln during the 1780 siege of Charleston.

James Ladson served as a member of the South Carolina General Assembly from 1785 to 1790.

James Ladson voted to ratify the federal Constitution in 1788 as a delegate for St Andrew at the state convention.

James Ladson served as Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from 1792 to 1794.

James Ladson was again elected to the South Carolina General Assembly in 1798, and served as a senator in the state Senate from 1800 to 1804.

James Ladson's wife was a granddaughter of the largest slave trader in British North America Joseph Wragg, a first cousin of governor of North Carolina Benjamin Smith, and a first cousin of Elizabeth Wragg Manigault, who was married to the wealthiest man in the British North American colonies Peter Manigault.

James Ladson was the father of James H Ladson, a major plantation owner who by 1850 owned over 200 slaves who produced 600,000 pounds of rice each year on his La Grange and Fawn Hill plantations, who was the Danish Consul in South Carolina.