Barnabas Kelet Henagan

Barnabas Kelet Hanagan

Secretary of State of South Carolina
In office December 2, 1846 – December 7, 1850
Governor	David Johnson Whitemarsh B. Seabrook
Preceded by	Robert Q. Pinckney
Succeeded by	Benjamin Perry
Member of the South Carolina Senate from Marion District
In office November 25, 1844 – December 2, 1846
Preceded by	Benjamin Gause
Succeeded by	Robert Harllee
58th Governor of South Carolina
In office April 7, 1840 – December 9, 1840
Lieutenant	None
Preceded by	Patrick Noble
Succeeded by	John Peter Richardson II
38th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
In office December 7, 1838 – April 7, 1840
Governor	Patrick Noble
Preceded by	William DuBose
Succeeded by	William K. Clowney
Member of the South Carolina Senate from Marlboro District
In office November 24, 1834 – November 26, 1838
Preceded by	Robert Blair Campbell
Succeeded by	Daniel C. Murdoch
Personal details
Born	(1798-06-07)June 7, 1798 Marlboro District
Died	January 10, 1855(1855-01-10) (aged 56) Charleston, South Carolina
Resting place	Rogers Cemetery, Marlboro County, South Carolina
Alma mater	Heidelberg University
Profession	physician, planter

Barnabas Kelet Henagan (June 7, 1798 – January 10, 1855) was a physician and South Carolina politician who became the 58th Governor due to the death of Patrick Noble on April 7, 1840.

Early life and career

Henagan was born in Marlboro District on June 7, 1798 to Darby and Drusilla Henegan. He was educated at the academies in Marlboro County and he went on to study medicine at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Afterwards he returned to South Carolina to practice medicine as a physician and he also engaged in planting. In 1826, he became the president of the Brownsville Minerva Academy.

Political career

Henagan won election to the South Carolina Senate in 1834 and was elected by the General Assembly to be the 38th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1838. In the final year of his term, Governor Patrick Noble died on April 7, 1840 and Henagan assumed the governorship. His term as governor lasted less than a year, but Henagan deplored to the Legislature the poor condition of the public schools in the state and the corruption of the electoral process. After leaving office in 1840, Henagan was reelected to the state Senate in 1844 and served as the Secretary of State from 1846 to 1850.

Later life

Henagan died on January 10, 1855 in Charleston and was buried at Rogers Cemetery in Marlboro County.

References

Wallace, David Duncan (1951). South Carolina: A Short History. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 461, 489.

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Political offices
Preceded by William DuBose	Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina 1838–1840	Succeeded by William K. Clowney
Preceded by Patrick Noble	Governor of South Carolina 1840	Succeeded by John Peter Richardson II

Governors of South Carolina

J. Rutledge Lowndes J. Rutledge Mathews Guerard Moultrie T. Pinckney C. Pinckney Moultrie Vanderhorst C. Pinckney E. Rutledge Drayton J. Richardson P. Hamilton C. Pinckney Drayton Middleton Alston D. Williams A. Pickens Geddes Bennett Wilson Manning I Taylor Miller J. Hamilton Hayne McDuffie Butler Noble Henagan Richardson II Hammond Aiken Johnson Seabrook Means J. Manning Adams Allston Gist F. Pickens Bonham Magrath Perry Orr Scott Moses Chamberlain Hampton Simpson Jeter Hagood Thompson Sheppard Richardson III Tillman Evans Ellerbe McSweeney Heyward Ansel Blease Smith Manning III Cooper Harvey McLeod Richards Blackwood Johnston Maybank Harley Jefferies Johnston R. Williams Thurmond Byrnes Timmerman Hollings Russell McNair West Edwards Riley Campbell Beasley Hodges Sanford Haley

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