Robert Y. Hayne

Robert Young Hayne was born in 1791 in the Colleton District of South Carolina, into a planter family. He studied law in Charleston under Langdon Cheves. He was admitted to the bar in 1812, served in the War of 1812, and in 1813 married Frances Henrietta Pinckney, daughter of the former governor Charles Pinckney. He served in the state House of Representatives, becoming its speaker in 1818, and then as attorney general of South Carolina. In 1823 he entered the United States Senate. Like John C. Calhoun, he defended states' rights and the doctrine of nullification, the claim that a state could refuse to enforce a federal law it judged unconstitutional, especially protective tariffs that South Carolina opposed. In 1830, in a famous Senate debate with Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, which arose over a resolution on western lands, Hayne argued that the Union was a compact among sovereign states; Webster replied with his defense of the Union. He later served as governor during the Nullification Crisis and as mayor of Charleston. He died in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1839.

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