James L. Orr (1872-1873)
1872-73
James Lawrence Orr was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1849 to 1859 from South Carolina, and was Speaker of the House during his last term. A member of South Carolina's secession convention, he was a Confederate Senator, and served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. After the war he was elected Governor of South Carolina. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him Minister to Russia. He died of pneumonia in St. Petersburg less than two months after he arrived at Post. He was the brother in law of Jehu Foster Marshall who was married to Elizabeth DeBruhl,
Jesse DeBruhl's daughter.
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