Daniel Elliott Huger (28 June 1779 – 21 August 1854) was a US Senator from South Carolina (D) from 4 March 1843 to 4 March 1845, interrupting John C. Calhoun's two terms.
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Daniel Elliott Huger was born in Limerick, Berkeley County, South Carolina in 1779, the son of Daniel Huger, and he became a lawyer in Charleston in 1799. He served in the State House from 1804 to 1819 and from 1830 to 1832, as a Brigadier-General of the state militia, as a circuit court judge from 1819 to 1830, and as a State Senate member from 1838 to 1842; he was an opposition member of the state nullification convention in 1832. As a states' rights Democrat, he supported greater autonomy for his state, and he served in the US Senate from 1843 until his resignation in 1845, upon which his predecessor, the great politician John C. Calhoun, returned to office. Huger died on Sullivan's Island in 1854.