Manuel Simeon Corley (February 10, 1823 – November 20, 1902) was a

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from

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Biography

"Sim" Corley was born in

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, and spent four years as a student at

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. He engaged in business in 1838. Corley came out against talk of secession when it began being heard in South Carolina in the early 1850s, and an effort was made to expel him from the state. Corley was a leader in the state's Lutheran church and served as editor of the South Carolina Temperance Standard in 1855 and 1856. Corley later claimed he had been the only editor in South Carolina to condemn as "disgraceful" South Carolina Sen.

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assault on Massachusetts Sen.

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on the senate floor in 1856.The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters In The Civil War And Reconstruction, James Alex Baggett, page 45
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in 1863 and was captured by Union troops at

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, on April 2, 1865. He took the oath of allegiance on June 5, 1865. Corley served as delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868. Running as a

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, he was elected to the Fortieth Congress, serving from July 25, 1868, to March 3, 1869. He served as special agent of the United States Treasury in 1869, commissioner of agricultural statistics of South Carolina in 1870 and treasurer of Lexington County in 1874. He died in

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, on November 20, 1902, and was interred in St. Stephen's Lutheran Cemeter
(his Find a Grave memorial)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Corley, Manuel Simeon 1823 births 1902 deaths Confederate States Army personnel Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina 19th-century American legislators People from Lexington, South Carolina