Robert Woodward Barnwell

Robert Woodward Barnwell ( born August 10, 1801 in Beaufort, South Carolina, † November 5, 1882 in Columbia, South Carolina ) was an American politician, the two chambers of the U.S. Congress and as a senator belonged to the Konföderiertenkongress.

Career

Robert Woodward Barnwell was born into a wealthy and influential family. His father Robert Barnwell sat in the Continental Congress and House of Representatives of the United States. Robert W. Barnwell began his training at the Beaufort -advanced College, but graduated from Harvard later. He then returned home and managed the family plantation.

Barnwells political career began in 1826 when he was elected as MP for the Beaufort County House of Representatives from South Carolina. He held the seat until 1828, when he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. Barnwell was 1829-1833 deputy, as he rejected a bid again in 1832. From 1833 to 1841 he was director of the South Carolina College, now better known as the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

After the death of Franklin H. Elmore on May 29, 1850 Barnwell was appointed U.S. Senator. He exercised the mandate only from June to December, since after a special election of Robert Barnwell Rhett selected displaced him from the post. During this period, the poor balance between the Northern and Southern senators called for such short-term orders. His only activity in the Senate was the participation in the recording of California as a state. In vain he fought first statehood, then gave but little by personally supervised the inclusion of the two California Senator, John C. Frémont, in the Congress.

1861 Barnwell deputy to the provisional Konföderiertenkongress, held in Montgomery, Alabama. When the Congress met for the first time on February 4, 1861 William Parish Chilton took the floor and stated that Barnwell should be appointed temporary chairman of the congress, until it is a permanent establishment. The Congress approved this request, but already on the same day handed Barnwell the Office of Howell Cobb on. On February 9, 1861, he gave his vote in Congress and thus secured the election of Jefferson Davis as the first President of the Confederate States. He also signed the Constitution of the Confederate States. In addition, he represented South Carolina in Konföderiertensenat 1861-1865. According to the American Civil War, he returned to Columbia back to teach at the university. From 1866 until his retirement in 1873 he was at South Carolina College chairman of the faculty.

He died on November 5, 1882 in Columbia, and was buried at St. Helena's Churchyard, Beaufort.