Robert Francis Withers Allston

37th Governor of the State of South Carolina 1856 to 1858

Date Born: April 21, 1801

Date Died: April 7, 1864

Place Born: All Saints Parish, SC

Place Buried: Prince George's Churchyard, Georgetown, SC

Residence: Georgetown District, SC

Occupation: Planter, Author, Colonel in SC Militia


West Point Military Academy - graduated 1821

South Carolina House of Representatives, 1828-1832
South Carolina Senate, 1850-1856

Allston authored A Memoir of the Introduction and Planting of Rice in South Carolina, Report on Public Schools, and An Essay on the Sea Coast Corps.

Allston won a medal at the Paris Exposition for the cultivation of rice, 1855-1856


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