LeRoy Franklin Youmans (November 14, 1834 - 1906) was a lawyer, state representative, officer in a mounted riflemen unit of the Confederate Army, U.S. Attorney,

South Carolina Attorney Genera The Attorney General of South Carolina is the state's chief legal officer and prosecutor. History Alexander Moultrie, half-brother of Revolutionary War figure and future governor William Moultrie, was named the state's first Attorney General un ...

l, and state supreme court judge who lived in

Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...

. He was born in Beaufort County, South Carolina. He graduated from South Carolina University in 1852. Youmans was appointed U.S. Attorney by president

Grover Cleveland Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837June 24, 1908) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Cleveland is the only president in American ...

. Youmans served as South Carolina Attorney General from 1877 to 1882 and from 1905 to 1906. He was involved in the Red Shirt movement, a paramilitary campaign of violence to prevent African Americans from voting, bring Democrats to power, and restore

white supremacy White supremacy or white supremacism is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white people. White su ...

. John Calhoun Sheppard studied law under him. He wrote about

Francis Wilkinson Pickens Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805/1807January 25, 1869) was a political Democrat and Governor of South Carolina when that state became the first to secede from the United States. A cousin of US Senator John C. Calhoun, Pickens was born into the ...

. He also wrote a sketch of South Carolina governor Andrew Gordon Magrath. A collection of his papers survive and he had speeches published including a Columbus Day speech and an 1882 speech in the Hall of the House of Representatives to South Carolina College alumni. He died of

cirrhosis Cirrhosis, also known as liver cirrhosis or hepatic cirrhosis, and end-stage liver disease, is the impaired liver function caused by the formation of scar tissue known as fibrosis due to damage caused by liver disease. Damage causes tissue repai ...

of the liver.

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