George Swinton Legaré

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George Swinton Legaré (1869—1913) was a politician from South Carolina; born in Rockville, S.C. Sortly after birth moved to Charleston, SC. At Charleston, he graduated from the Porter Military Academy in 1889. He then attended the law department of the University of South Carolina at Columbia for two years; was graduated from Georgetown University Law School, Washington, D.C., in 1893. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced a legal practice in Charleston, S.C. He was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses. He served from March 4, 1903, until his death, before the close of the Sixty-second Congress; had been reelected to the Sixty-third Congress. His death was in Charleston, S.C., January 31, 1913; interment in Magnolia Cemetery.