Arthur P. Hayne
Arthur Peronneau Hayne (March 12, 1788 – January 7, 1867) was a Democratic politician and lawyer from Charleston, South Carolina. He briefly served as a United States senator from South Carolina in 1858, appointed to fill a vacancy after the death of Josiah Evans; he did not run for the seat afterward. He had earlier served in the South Carolina House of Representatives (1828–1829) representing St. Philip's and St. Michael's Parish.
Born in Charleston, he came from a family with English and French Huguenot roots. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced. Hayne had a long military career: in the War of 1812 he was a first lieutenant at Sackets Harbor, a major of cavalry on the St. Lawrence, and inspector general in 1814; he was brevetted lieutenant colonel for gallantry at the Battle of New Orleans. He also commanded Tennessee Volunteers in the Seminole Wars and retired from the military in 1820. He later served as a United States naval agent in the Mediterranean for five years and declined an ambassadorial post to Belgium.
Hayne married Frances Duncan, and later Elizabeth Laura Alston. His daughter Frances Duncan Hayne married Lloyd James Beall, a Confederate officer. He died in Charleston in 1867 and was buried at St. Michael's Churchyard. He was the older brother of Robert Young Hayne, also a U.S. Senator and South Carolina Governor, and an uncle of poet Paul Hamilton Hayne.
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