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Keitt was born in Orangeburg County, South Carolina , October 4 , 1824 . A member of the Democratic Party , he was representative to the South Carolina state house, 1848; U.S. Representative from South Carolina 3rd District, 1853-55, 1855-56, 1856-60. Keitt was censured by the House in 1856 for aiding Rep. Preston S. Brooks in his caning attack on Sen. Charles Sumner , after which he resigned and was re-elected to his seat within a month. Keitt served as a delegate from South Carolina to the Provisional Confederate Congress , 1861-62, and colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Mortally wounded at the Battle Of Cold Harbor , Keitt died the next day, near Richmond, Virginia , June 4 , 1864 . |
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