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Politicians in Importing and Exporting in South Carolina

Stephen Robinson Bell (1860-1897) — also known as Stephen R. Bell — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., June 13, 1860. Cotton exporter; Honorary Vice-Consul for Russia in Charleston, S.C., 1892-97. Scotch-Irish and French Huguenot ancestry. Died in Aiken County, S.C., February 8, 1897 (age 36 years, 240 days). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.   Relatives: Son of William Bell, Jr. and Susan (Robinson) Bell; married to Elizabeth Tavel; first cousin twice removed of John Brownlee Robertson.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   William de Bruyn=Kops (1860-1957) — of Savannah, Chatham County, Ga. Born in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., November 4, 1860. Cotton exporter; Consul for Netherlands in Savannah, Ga., 1888-1903. Dutch, English, and Scottish ancestry. Died in Savannah, Chatham County, Ga., August 8, 1957 (age 96 years, 277 days). Interment at Laurel Grove North Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.   Relatives: Son of Cornelius Jan de Bruyn=Kops and Jane Washington (Davidson) Kops; married 1913 to Ada Martin Turner; second cousin twice removed of Walker Peyton Conway; second cousin five times removed of George Washington; fourth cousin once removed of Lee Marvin.   Political families: Walker-Meriwether-Kellogg family of Virginia; Roosevelt family of New York; Jackson-Lee family; Lee-Randolph family; Washington-Walker family of Virginia; Clay family of Kentucky; DeBruyn-Washington family of Savannah, Georgia; Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell family of Virginia; Pendleton-Lee family of Maryland (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Daniel DeSaussure (1736-1798) — also known as John Daniel Hector DeSaussure — of Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston County), S.C. Born in Prince William Parish County (now part of Beaufort County), S.C., April 10, 1736. Merchant; importer; banker; member of South Carolina state senate from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1785-90; delegate to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution, 1788. Episcopalian. French Huguenot ancestry. Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now Charleston County), S.C., July 2, 1798 (age 62 years, 83 days). Burial location unknown.   Relatives: Son of Henry DeSaussure and Madeleine DeSaussure; married to Mary McPherson; father of Henry William de Saussure; grandfather of William Ford DeSaussure and Andrew William Burnet; great-grandfather of Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure and Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.; third great-grandfather of Burnet Rhett Maybank; fourth great-grandfather of Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr..   Political family: DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   Antonio Gastaver (1851-1929) — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Spain, March 14, 1851. Naturalized U.S. citizen; cotton exporter; Honorary Vice-Consul for Spain in Charleston, S.C., 1900-07; Vice-Consul for Uruguay in Charleston, S.C., 1903-07. Spanish ancestry. Died in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., January 5, 1929 (age 77 years, 297 days). Interment at Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Va.   Relatives: Married to Laura (Barnes) Rodman.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Guillermo Oliveras Hall (born c.1850) — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Spain, about 1850. Cotton exporter; Vice-Consul for Ecuador in Charleston, S.C., 1889-1907. Burial location unknown. William Frederick Ives (1897-1972) — also known as William F. Ives — of Tampa, Hillsborough County, Fla.; Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Fla.; St. Petersburg, Pinellas County, Fla. Born in North Tonawanda, Niagara County, N.Y., February 17, 1897. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; export manager for a cement manufacturer; Honorary Consul for Venezuela in Tampa, Fla., 1932-37; Honorary Consul for Guatemala in Tampa, Fla., 1935; Honorary Consul for Haiti in Palm Beach & West Palm Beach, Fla., 1944. Died August 14, 1972 (age 75 years, 179 days). Interment at Florence National Cemetery, Florence, S.C.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial   Image source: Tampa Bay Times, August 15, 1972   Burnet Rhett Maybank (1899-1954) — also known as Burnet R. Maybank — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., March 7, 1899. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; cotton exporter; mayor of Charleston, S.C., 1931-38; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, 1936, 1940, 1944 (speaker), 1952 (member, Credentials Committee); Governor of South Carolina, 1939-41; member of Democratic National Committee from South Carolina, 1940; U.S. Senator from South Carolina, 1941-54; died in office 1954. Episcopalian. Died, of a heart attack, in Flat Rock, Henderson County, N.C., September 1, 1954 (age 55 years, 178 days). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.   Relatives: Son of Joseph Maybank and Harriet Lowndes (Rhett) Maybank; married 1923 to Elizabeth deRosset Myers; married 1948 to Mary Cecil; father of Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.; grandnephew of Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.; great-grandson of Robert Barnwell Rhett, William Aiken Jr. and John Edward Frampton; great-grandnephew of Andrew William Burnet; second great-grandson of Thomas Lowndes; second great-grandnephew of Henry William de Saussure and William Jones Lowndes; third great-grandson of Rawlins Lowndes and Daniel DeSaussure; first cousin thrice removed of William Ford DeSaussure; second cousin twice removed of Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure; third cousin twice removed of Charles Pinckney Brown.   Political families: VanRensselaer family of Albany, New York; DeSaussure-Lowndes-Aiken-Rhett family of Charleston, South Carolina; Pinckney-Middleton family of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).   See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial   Charles Otto Witte (1823-1908) — also known as Karl Otto Witte — of Charleston, Charleston County, S.C. Born in Blomberg, Germany, November 23, 1823. Importer and exporter; banker; Vice-Consul for Sweden & Norway in Charleston, S.C., 1865-1903; Consul for Germany in Charleston, S.C., 1871-1907; Vice-Consul for Austria-Hungary in Charleston, S.C., 1881-1907. Died in Charleston, Charleston County, S.C., March 2, 1908 (age 84 years, 100 days). Interment at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.   Relatives: Son of Johann Friedrich Witte and Christianna (Linnemann) Witte; married to Charlotte Sophia Reeves.   See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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