| 词条 | Robert Francis Withers Allston |
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|name=Robert Francis Withers Allston |image=Allston portrait by Flagg small.jpg |caption=R F W Allston, 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 date|1801|4|21}} |birth_place=Waccamaw, South Carolina |death_date={{Death date and age|1864|4|7|1801|4|21}} |death_place=Georgetown County, South Carolina |spouse=Adele Petigru |profession=Statesman |party=Democratic |religion=Episcopal |footnotes= |alma_mater = United States Military Academy |serviceyears = 1821–1822 |rank = Second lieutenant |branch = United States Army }} Robert Francis Withers Allston (April 21, 1801{{spaced ndash}}April 7, 1864) was the 67th Governor of South Carolina. He was born in Waccamaw, 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. 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 their 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. After the civil war he spent his last few years trying to save his vast landholdings throughout the Pee Dee region, primarily in Georgetown District.{{Citation needed|reason=he wasn't alive after the war|date=August 2018}} 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 9500 acres and at least 690 enslaved Blacks. Making him the eighth largest slave holder 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). See also
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