- William Drayton
:"For other men with the same name, see:
William Drayton (disambiguation) ."William Drayton (
December 30 ,1776 –May 24 ,1846 ) was an American politician, banker, and author fromCharleston, South Carolina . He was the son of Federal JudgeWilliam Drayton, Sr. of South Carolina.He represented
South Carolina 's first district in the U.S. Congress from 1825 to 1833. He was a unionist during thenullification controversy and in 1833 moved toPhiladelphia , where he published a pro-slavery tract and served as president of theBank of the United States . He was the father ofPercival Drayton and Thomas Fenwick Drayton, who fought on opposite sides during theAmerican Civil War . His first cousin wasWilliam Henry Drayton .He bought
Drayton Island , a plantation, in Florida. [cite web
url=http://www.unf.edu/floridahistoryonline//Plantations/plantations/Drayton_Island.htm
title=Drayton Island
publisher=University of Florida
accessdate=2007-02-13] AuthorEdgar Allan Poe dedicated his collection "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque " to him. [Quinn, Arthur Hobson. "Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography". Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. p. 129. ISBN 0801857309] Drayton authored "The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Abolitionists" in 1836.Notes
External links
* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000490 biographic sketch at U.S. Congress website]
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