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Julius C. Tingman
South Carolina farmer and politician (1841?–1917) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Julius Caesar Tingman (1841? – December 7, 1917) was an American soldier and South Carolina state legislator.
Biography
Tingman was born to a woman named Mary Tingman in Berkeley County, South Carolina sometime in the late 1830s or early 1840s.[1][2] He served as a corporal in the U.S. Colored Troops during the American Civil War.[3] He was two-term member of the South Carolina House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era.[4] Tingman was elected to represent Charleston County.[5][6] In 1874 he introduced legislation to amend "the fence law so far as regards certain portions of Charleston; to repeal the game laws of the State; to compel dealers in turpentine, in Charleston County, to pay the laborers the Charleston market prices for crude turpentine."[7] Tingman was the great-great-grandfather of comedians Chris Rock and Tony Rock.[4]
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