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ROBERT YOUNG HAYNE

Elected intendant September 5, 1836, succeeding Dr. Edward W. North. Succeeded by Henry L. Pinckney, September 1837.
Born 1791, died September 24, 1839, buried in St. Michael's Episcopal churchyard.
Son of William Hayne and Elizabeth Peronneau, married Frances Henrietta Pinckney 1813; married Rebecca Brewton Alston 1820. 
Attended Charleston schools, studied law. Admitted to bar in 1821, practiced with Benjamin Elliott.
Lieutenant in Charleston Cadet Infantry during War of 1812; 1814 became captain of the Charleston Cadet Riflemen. State militia 1814-1836, rising to the position of major general.
Represented St. Philip's and St. Michael's parishes in State House during three General Assemblies, 1814-1819. South Carolina attorney general 1819-1822; United States senator 1823-1833, resigning in December 1832 after being elected governor of South Carolina.
1836 became first president of the Louisville, Cincinnati and Charleston Railroad.

Bailey, N. Louise. Biographical Directory of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Volume 4, 1791-1815.

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His early years were spent in Beaufort, but in 1809 he was sent to Charleston to attend private schools. He read law (1808-1812) in the offices of Langdon Cheves, Amos B. Northrop, and Benjamin Elliott. He was admitted to the South Carolina bar on November 2, 1812, and he was a law partner of Benjamin Elliott for several years.

Public service began during the War of 1812. He enlisted in the 3rd Regiment of State Troops and served as a Lieutenant in the Charleston Cadet Infantry then as a Captain in the Charleston Cadet Riflemen (1814).

Robert Young Hayne married Frances Henrietta, daughter of Charles Pinckney and Mary Eleanor (Laurens) Pinckney on November 3, 1813, and they had three children. She died on October 8, 1818. He married a second time, to Rebecca Brewton, daughter of William Alston and Mary (Brewton) Motte Alston, on May 31, 1820, and they had two sons.

In 1814, he was first elected to represent St. Philip's & St. Michael's Parish in the House of Representatives of the:
- 21st General Assembly that met from 1814-1815
- 22nd General Assembly that met from 1816-

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Robert Y. Hayne (1791-1839) served as governor of South Carolina from 1832-1834. Hayne was born on his family's plantation, Pon Pon, in St. Paul's Parish. After studying law under Langdon Cheves, Hayne took over his practice when Cheves was elected to the U.S. Congress. In 1814, Hayne was elected to the state House of Representatives and later became Speaker. He served as the Attorney General of South Carolina from 1818 until 1822. Elected a U.S. Senator in 1824, Hayne gained recognition as an able orator and debater. He engaged in a noted debate with Senator Daniel Webster of Massachusetts on the nature of the Union (see The Webster-Hayne Debate), in which he supported states' rights. Hayne was also a member of the South Carolina convention which adopted a nullification ordinance against United States tariff legislation in 1832. Elected governor in that same year, he had to deal with the Nullification Crisis during his tenure in office. He was prepared to oppose the enforcement of Federal tariff laws

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