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Robert Francis Withers Allston

American politician

Summary

American politician

Field	Value
name	Robert Francis Withers Allston
image	Allston portrait by Flagg small.jpg
caption	detail of portrait by George Whiting Flagg, c. 1850
order	67th
office	Governor of South Carolina
term_start	December 10, 1856
term_end	December 10, 1858
lieutenant	Gabriel Cannon
predecessor	James Hopkins Adams
successor	William Henry Gist
office1	President of the South Carolina Senate
term1	November 25, 1850 – December 10, 1856
Pro tempore: December 14, 1847 – November 25, 1850
governor1	David Johnson
Whitemarsh B. Seabrook
John Hugh Means
John Lawrence Manning
James Hopkins Adams
predecessor1	Angus Patterson
successor1	James Chesnut, Jr.
office2	Member of the South Carolina Senate from Georgetown District
term2	December 12, 1834 – December 10, 1856
predecessor2	Himself
successor2	John I. Middleton
term3	November 25, 1833 – November 24, 1834
predecessor3	John Harleston Read
successor3	Himself
office4	Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Georgetown District
term4	November 21, 1828 – November 26, 1832
birth_date
birth_place	Waccamaw River, South Carolina, US
death_date
death_place	Georgetown County, South Carolina, US
spouse	Adele Petigru
children	9, including Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle
profession	Statesman
party	Democratic
alma_mater	United States Military Academy
serviceyears	1821–1822
rank	Second lieutenant
branch	United States Army

Pro tempore: December 14, 1847 – November 25, 1850 Whitemarsh B. Seabrook John Hugh Means John Lawrence Manning James Hopkins Adams

Robert Francis Withers Allston (April 21, 1801April 7, 1864) was the 67th Governor of South Carolina. He was born in the Waccamaw River in South Carolina.

He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1821, and briefly served as second lieutenant of artillery before resigning in February 1822.

Career

He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1828, serving in that body through 1831. In 1834, he was elected to the South Carolina Senate, serving in that body until 1856, while there he was appointed Senate President in 1847 and was involved in several disputed elections involving the Prince George Winyah S.C. Senate seat, in large part because of his staunch support of nullification. From 1856 to 1858 he served as Governor of South Carolina. Following South Carolina's secession, he was a Confederate presidential elector.

Family and background

His family was able to maintain two houses in Georgetown and several plantations, including the Allston ancestral home on the Pee Dee River, Chicora Wood—one of the five plantations Robert Allston owned, with over 9,500 acres and at least 690 enslaved Blacks, making him the eighth largest enslaver in United States history. On his farms he primarily grew rice and published several works on rice planting, including the well-regarded Memoir of the Introduction and Planting of Rice in South-Carolina (1843) and Essay on Sea Coast Crops (1854). Allston's daughter, Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle, took over the management of Chicora Wood after his death.

Born in 1801 as a younger son to a Georgetown rice plantation who died when Robert was a child. In 1832, he married Adeline (Adéle) Theresa Petigru (b. 1811 d. 1896.) She was the younger sister of James Louis Petigru, a well-known Charleston SC lawyer. They moved to Chicora Woods and had the following children:

Benjamin b.1833 d.1900
Robert b. 1834 d.1839
Charlotte Frances b. 1837 d. 1843
Adele Petigru Vanderhorst b. 1840 d.1915
Louise Gibert b. 1842 d. 1843
Elizabeth Waties Pringle b. 1845 d.1876
Charles Petigru b. 1848 d.1922
Jane Louise Hill b. 1850 d. 1937
Unnamed infant son b. 1852

References

Who Was Who in America:Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Quincy Who's Who, 1967.
http://atlantablackstar.com/2014/12/23/9-of-the-biggest-slave-owners-in-american-history/8/
South Carolina encyclopedia. http://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/allston-robert-francis-withers/

References

{{cite BDA1906
"Pringle, Elizabeth Waties Allston".
A family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and at War, Jayne H. Pease and William H. Pease, c. 1999 University of North Carolina Press/Chapel Hill and London. {{ISBN. 0-8078-2505-0.

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