Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist. | |  Daniel DeSaussure (1736-1798) — also known asJohn Daniel Hector DeSaussure — of Charleston, Charleston District (nowCharlestonCounty), S.C.Born in Prince William Parish County (now part ofBeaufortCounty), S.C.,April10, 1736.Merchant;importer;banker;member ofSouthCarolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1785-90;delegateto South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788.Episcopalian.FrenchHuguenot ancestry.Died in Charleston, Charleston District (nowCharlestonCounty), S.C.,July 2,1798 (age62 years, 83days).Burial location unknown. | | Henry William de Saussure (1763-1839) — also known asHenry W. de Saussure — of Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.; Columbia,RichlandCounty, S.C.Born inJasperCounty, S.C.,August16, 1763.Lawyer;delegateto South Carolina state constitutional convention, 1790; memberofSouthCarolina state house of representatives, 1790-94, 1796-98,1806-08;intendantof Charleston, South Carolina, 1797-99.Congregationalist.Died in Columbia, Richland District (nowRichlandCounty), S.C.,March26, 1839 (age75 years, 222days).Interment atFirstPresbyterian Churchyard, Columbia, S.C. | | William Ford DeSaussure (1792-1870) — also known asWilliam F. DeSaussure — of Columbia, Richland District (nowRichlandCounty), S.C.Born in Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.,February22, 1792.Democrat. Member ofSouthCarolina state house of representatives from Richland, 1837-40,1842-48;U.S.Senator from South Carolina, 1852-53;delegateto South Carolina secession convention from Richland, 1860-62.Slaveowner. Died in Columbia,RichlandCounty, S.C.,March13, 1870 (age78 years, 19days).Interment atPresbyterianChurchyard, Columbia, S.C.  | Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876) — also known asRobert Rhett;Robert BarnwellSmith —of Charleston, Charleston District (nowCharlestonCounty), S.C.Born in Beaufort,BeaufortCounty, S.C.,December21, 1800.Democrat.SouthCarolina state attorney general, 1832;U.S.Representative from South Carolina, 1837-49 (7th District1837-39, 6th District 1839-41, 7th District 1841-49);U.S.Senator from South Carolina, 1850-52;delegateto South Carolina secession convention from St. Philips' & St.Michael's, 1860-62;Delegatefrom South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress,1861-62.Slaveowner. Died inSt. JamesParish, La.,September14, 1876 (age75 years, 268days).Interment atMagnoliaCemetery, Charleston, S.C. | | Andrew William Burnet (1811-1896) — of Charleston, Charleston District (nowCharlestonCounty), S.C.Born in Colleton District (nowColletonCounty), S.C.,June 12,1811.Delegateto South Carolina secession convention from St. Philips' & St.Michael's, 1860-62.DiedDecember6, 1896 (age85 years, 177days).Interment atMagnoliaCemetery, Charleston, S.C. | | Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure (1822-1886) — also known asWilmot G. de Saussure — Born in Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.,July 23,1822.Lawyer;member ofSouthCarolina state house of representatives, 1848-49, 1854-57,1860-63;AdjutantGeneral of South Carolina, 1862.FrenchHuguenot ancestry. Member,Societyof the Cincinnati;Freemasons;OddFellows.Died in Ocala,MarionCounty, Fla.,February1, 1886 (age63 years, 193days).Interment atMagnoliaCemetery, Charleston, S.C. | | Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr. (1828-1905) — of Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.Born in Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.,February25, 1828.Member ofSouthCarolina state house of representatives from Charleston County,1876-78.Died in Huntsville,MadisonCounty, Ala.,January29, 1905 (age76 years, 339days).Interment atMapleHill Cemetery, Huntsville, Ala. | | Burnet Rhett Maybank (1899-1954) — also known asBurnet R. Maybank — of Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.Born in Charleston,CharlestonCounty, S.C.,March 7,1899.Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I;cottonexporter;mayorof Charleston, S.C., 1931-38; delegate to Democratic NationalConvention from South Carolina,1936,1940,1944(speaker),1952(member,CredentialsCommittee);Governor ofSouth Carolina, 1939-41; member ofDemocraticNational Committee from South Carolina, 1940;U.S.Senator from South Carolina, 1941-54; died in office 1954.Episcopalian.Died, of aheartattack, in Flat Rock,HendersonCounty, N.C.,September1, 1954 (age55 years, 178days).Interment atMagnoliaCemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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