Gabriel CannonGabriel Cannon was an American politician who served as the 47th lieutenant governor of South Carolina.BiographyCannon entered a partnership with Joseph Finger in Fingerville, South Carolina where they established a cotton manufacturing factory. Cannon entered politics when he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1842 to 1846 as a member of the Democratic Party. He also served in the South Carolina Senate from 1846 to 1862 and again from 1876 to 1880. In 1856, he was elected lieutenant governor of the state.