George W. Dargan

Who was George W. Dargan?

George William Dargan was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina, great-grandson of Lemuel Benton.

Born at "Sleepy Hollow," near Darlington, South Carolina, Dargan attended the schools of his native county and the South Carolina Military Academy. He served in the Confederate States Army throughout the Civil War. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1872 and practiced in Darlington, South Carolina.

Dargan was elected to the State house of representatives in 1877. He served as solicitor of the fourth judicial circuit of South Carolina in 1880.

Dargan was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1890. He resumed the practice of law. He died in Darlington, South Carolina, June 29, 1898. He was interred in First Baptist Churchyard.