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Earle was a member of the South Carolina House Of Representatives from 1878 to 1882, and was a member of the South Carolina Senate from 1882 to 1886. He was South Carolina Attorney General from 1886 to 1890, declined the nomination for Governor , and ran unsuccessfully for that office in 1890. He returned to Greenville in 1892, was elected a Circuit Judge in 1894, and was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate, serving from March 4 , 1897 until his death in Greenville on May 20 , 1897 . Interment was in Christ Churchyard. Joseph Earle was a great-grandson of Elias Earle , a cousin of John Laurens Manning Irby , and a nephew of William Lowndes Yancey , all of whom were members of the U.S. Congress (Yancey also the C.S. Congress). REFERENCES
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