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Senate Years of Service: 1823-1825; 1825-1831; 1831-1832 Party: Jackson Republican; Jacksonian; Nullifier
HAYNE, Robert Young, (brother of Arthur Peronneau Hayne),
a Senator from South Carolina; born on Pon Pon plantation, St. Pauls Parish,
Colleton District, S.C., November 10, 1791; attended private schools in Charleston; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1812 and commenced practice in Charleston, S.C.; served in the War of 1812,
becoming captain of the Charleston Cadet Riflemen in 1814; appointed quartermaster general of the
State in December 1814; member, State house of representatives 1814-1818, and served as speaker
in 1818; State attorney general 1818-1822; elected to the United States Senate in 1822; reelected in
1828 as a Jacksonian and served from March 4, 1823, to December 13, 1832, when he resigned to
become Governor; participated in January and February 1830 in a notable exchange with Senator
Daniel Webster of Massachusetts upon the principles of the Constitution, the authority of the general
government, and the rights of the States; chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Nineteenth through
Twenty-second Congresses); member of the South Carolina nullification convention in 1832;
Governor of South Carolina 1832-1834; mayor of Charleston 1835-1837; promoter and president
of the Louisville, Cincinnati & Charleston Railroad 1836-1839; died in Asheville, N.C., September
24, 1839; interment in St. Michael's Churchyard, Charleston, S.C.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Jervy, Theodore. Robert Y. Hayne and His
Times. 1909. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1970; Patterson, Lane. The Battle of the
Giants: Webster and Hayne: Orators at Odds. American History Illustrated 17
(February 1983): 18-23.
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