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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaRobert Woodward BARNWELL
(1801-1882)
Senate Years of Service:
1850-1850Party: DemocratBARNWELL, Robert Woodward,
(son of Robert Barnwell), a Representative and a Senator from South
Carolina; born in Beaufort, Beaufort County, S.C., August 10, 1801;
attended private schools in Beaufort and Charleston, S.C., and
graduated from Harvard University in 1821; studied law; admitted to
the bar and commenced practice in Beaufort, S.C., in 1824; member,
State house of representatives 1826-1828; elected to the
Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1829-March
3,1833); not a candidate for renomination in 1832; president of
South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at
Columbia 1835-1841, when he resigned; appointed to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Franklin
H. Elmore and served from June 4 to December 8, 1850, when a
successor was elected and qualified; not a candidate for election;
member of the Nashville convention in 1850; commissioner to the
Federal Government from South Carolina regarding the secession of
that State in December 1860; delegate to the convention of the
seceding States in Montgomery, Ala., his being the deciding vote in
the South Carolina delegation which carried the State for Jefferson
Davis and made him President of the Southern Confederacy; member of
the Confederate States Senate 1861-1865; chairman of the faculty of
the University of South Carolina 1866-1873; conducted a private
girls school in Columbia, S.C.; died in Columbia, Richland County,
S.C., November 5, 1882; interment in St. Helena’s Churchyard,
Beaufort, S.C.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Barnwell, John, ed. “‘In the Hands of
Compromisers’: Letters of Robert W. Barnwell to James H.
Hammond.” Civil War History 29 (June 1983): 154-68;
Barnwell, John, ed. “Hamlet to Hotspur: Letters of Robert
Woodward Barnwell to Robert Barnwell Rhett.” South
Carolina Historical Magazine 77 (October 1976): 236-37,
247.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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