John Joel Chappell (January 19, 1782 – May 23, 1871) was a

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. Born on Little River, near Columbia, Fairfield District, South Carolina, where the family was on a visit, Chappell was, as an infant, taken by his parents to their home on the Congaree River, Richland District, South Carolina. He attended the common schools and was graduated from the law department of South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia. He was admitted to the bar in 1805 and commenced practice in

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. He was appointed adjutant of the Thirty-third South Carolina Regiment in 1805 and elected captain and then colonel of the same regiment in 1808. He served as member of the State house of representatives 1808–1812. He was appointed trustee of South Carolina College in 1809. He served in the

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. Chappell was elected as a

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to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1817). He served as chairman of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses). He resumed the practice of law until 1837. He served as director of the Columbia branch of the State Bank of South Carolina 1830–1858. He moved to Lowndes County, Alabama, and became a cotton planter. He died in Lowndes County on May 23, 1871. He was interred in First Baptist Church Cemetery,

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