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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaAIKEN, David Wyatt
(1828—1887)
AIKEN, David Wyatt, (father of Wyatt Aiken and cousin of William Aiken), a Representative from South Carolina; born in Winnsboro, Fairfield County, S.C., March 17, 1828; received his early education under private tutors; attended Mount Zion Institute, Winnsboro, and was graduated from South Carolina University, at Columbia, in 1849; taught school two years; engaged in agricultural pursuits in 1852; during the Civil War served in the Confederate Army as a private; appointed adjutant and later elected colonel of the Seventh Regiment of Volunteers; relieved from service by reason of wounds received on September 17, 1862, at Antietam; member of the State house of representatives 1864-1866; secretary and treasurer, Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina, 1869; member, executive committee, National Grange, 1873-1885, and served as chairman, 1875; delegate to the Democratic National Convention at St. Louis in 1876; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Education (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in 1886, being an invalid throughout his last term; died in Cokesbury, S.C., April 6, 1887; interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Greenwood, S.C.
Bibliography
Pritchard, Claudius Hornby, Jr. Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken, 1828-1887, South Carolina’s Militant Agrarian.
Hampden-Sydney, Va.: Privately printed, 1970.
Aiken, David Wyatt. The Grange; its origin, progress, and educational purposes ... read before a convention called by the Commissioner of Agriculture, January 23d, 1883, to consider the subject of agricultural education
. Philadelphia: J. A. Wagenseller, 1884.
Hand, Samuel B. Friends, Neighbors, and Political Allies
. Burlington: University of Vermont, 1986.
Pritchard, Claudius Hornby. Colonel D. Wyatt Aiken, 1828-1877, South Carolina’s Militant Agrarian.
Hampden-Sydney, Va.: Privately printed, 1970.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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