Editing Daniel Huger

{{short description|American politician}}
{{For|his son, also a member of U.S. Congress|Daniel Elliott Huger}}

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{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Daniel Huger
| image name=Daniel Huger.jpg
| state=[[South Carolina]]
| district=[[United States House of Representatives, South Carolina District 3|3rd]]
| party=Pro-Administration
| term_start=March 4, 1789
| term_end=March 3, 1793
| preceded= Position created
| succeeded=[[Lemuel Benton]]
|office2 = Delegate to the [[Congress of the Confederation]] from South Carolina
| term_start2 = November 6, 1786
| term_end2 = October 21, 1788
| birth_date={{Birth date|1742|02|20}} 
| birth_place=[[Berkeley County, South Carolina|Berkeley County]], [[Province of South Carolina]], [[British America]]
| death_date={{Death date and age|1799|07|06|1742|02|20}}
| death_place=[[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], [[South Carolina]], [[United States|U.S.]]
| spouse=
| religion=
| occupation=
| residence= 
| alma_mater=
| signature=
| children = [[Daniel Elliott Huger]]
}}
'''Daniel Huger''' (February 20, 1742{{spnd}}July 6, 1799) was an [[Americans|American]] slaveholder, planter and politician who served two terms in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Berkeley County, South Carolina]] from 1789 to 1793.

==Early life==
[[File:Coat of Arms of Daniel Hugher.svg|175px|thumb|left|Coat of Arms of Daniel Huger]]
His grandfather was Daniel Huger Sr (1651–1711), a [[French people|French]] [[Huguenot]] who was born in [[Loudun]], [[France]] and settled in [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]].

==Career==
Daniel Huger was a delegate for [[South Carolina]] to the [[Continental Congress]] from 1786 to 1788 and a [[United States representative]] from 1789 to 1793.<ref name="Smith">{{cite book|last1=Smith|first1=Alice R. Huger|last2=Smith|first2=D.E. Huger|title=The Dwelling Houses of Charleston|date=2007|publisher=The History Press|location=Charleston|isbn=9781596292611|pages=40–41}}</ref> He owned slaves.<ref name="Congress slaveowners">{{Citation|title=Congress slaveowners|date=2022-01-13|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=2022-07-03}}</ref>

==Personal life==
[[File:Daniel Huger House.jpg|thumb|left|Daniel Huger House, Charleston]]

Daniel Huger's wife was the sister of the wife of Lewis Morris, Jr., the son of New York Congressman [[Lewis Morris]].<ref name=Smith/>  His son, [[Daniel Elliott Huger]], would later serve in the [[United States Senate]] for South Carolina and marry a daughter of [[Arthur Middleton]].

===Descendants===
Mary Procter Huger, his great-granddaughter through his son Daniel, was the wife of Confederate General [[Arthur Middleton Manigault]], who was of Huguenot descent himself; likewise a nephew of Daniel Elliot Huger was Confederate General [[Benjamin Huger (general)|Benjamin Huger]].

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==External links==
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[[Category:1742 births]]
[[Category:1799 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Berkeley County, South Carolina]]
[[Category:People from colonial South Carolina]]
[[Category:American people of French descent]]
[[Category:Continental Congressmen from South Carolina]]
[[Category:Pro-Administration Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina]]
[[Category:18th-century American planters]]
[[Category:American slave owners]]
[[Category:18th-century members of the United States House of Representatives]]


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