Robert Woodward Barnwell
This Robert woodward Barnwell began his advanced education at Beaufort College, then graduated from Harvard.Robert Woodward's political career began in 1826 when he served in the South Carolina state House of Representatives for Beaufort County.Barnwell supported nullification and feared that Andrew Jackson was "bent on enforcing his mandate at the point of a bayonet.He opposed statehood in vain, but then had the good grace to introduce and present the credentials for one of her new senators, John C. Frémont.In 1861, Barnwell was a delegate to the Confederate States of America Provisional Congress held in Montgomery, Alabama.