Barnwell, Robert Woodward

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    Full name
    Robert Woodward Barnwell
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
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    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    Family
    Robert Barnwell (father)
    Education
    Harvard
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Farmer or Planter
    Educator
    Relation to Slavery
    Slaveholder
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Episcopalian
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    US Senate
    US House of Representatives
    State legislature

    Robert Woodward Barnwell (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    BARNWELL, 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.
    “Barnwell, Robert Woodward,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000168.
    How to Cite This Page: "Barnwell, Robert Woodward," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5038.