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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: DeSaussure-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of the much larger <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a> group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist. <table align="left" cellpadding=5> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Daniel DeSaussure (1736-1798) — also known as John Daniel Hector DeSaussure — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Prince William Parish County (now part of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-born.html">Beaufort County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1736/04-10.html">April 10, 1736</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/merchant.html">Merchant</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">importer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/banking.html">banker</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/stsen.html">South Carolina state senate</a> from St. Philip & St. Michael, 1785-90; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cnrt.html">delegate to South Carolina convention to ratify U.S. constitution</a>, 1788. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> ancestry. Died in Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-died.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1798/07-02.html">July 2, 1798</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/62.html">62 years, 83 days</a>). Burial location unknown. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry DeSaussure and Madeleine DeSaussure; married to Mary McPherson; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#762.54.29">Henry William de Saussure</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#467.25.67">William Ford DeSaussure</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#966.10.05">Andrew William Burnet</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#774.47.67">Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1310.html">DeSaussure-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Henry William de Saussure (1763-1839) — also known as Henry W. de Saussure — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C.; Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-lived.html">Richland County</a>, S.C. Born in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/JA-born.html">Jasper County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1763/08-16.html">August 16, 1763</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to South Carolina state constitutional convention</a>, 1790; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1790-94, 1796-98, 1806-08; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html#2">intendant of Charleston, South Carolina</a>, 1797-99. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/congregationalist.html">Congregationalist</a>. Died in Columbia, Richland District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-died.html">Richland County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1839/03-26.html">March 26, 1839</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 222 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-buried.html#cms03032">First Presbyterian Churchyard</a>, Columbia, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#547.83.25">Daniel DeSaussure</a> and Mary (McPherson) de Saussure; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1785/">1785</a> to Elizabeth Ford; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#467.25.67">William Ford DeSaussure</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#966.10.05">Andrew William Burnet</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#774.47.67">Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1310.html">DeSaussure-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry William de Saussure">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/63952268">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> William Ford DeSaussure (1792-1870) — also known as William F. DeSaussure — of Columbia, Richland District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-lived.html">Richland County</a>), S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1792/02-22.html">February 22, 1792</a>. Democrat. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Richland, 1837-40, 1842-48; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1852-53; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from Richland, 1860-62. Slaveowner. Died in Columbia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-died.html">Richland County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1870/03-13.html">March 13, 1870</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/78.html">78 years, 19 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/RI-buried.html#cms02441">Presbyterian Churchyard</a>, Columbia, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#762.54.29">Henry William de Saussure</a> and Elizabeth (Ford) de Saussure; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#774.47.67">Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#547.83.25">Daniel DeSaussure</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#966.10.05">Andrew William Burnet</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1310.html">DeSaussure-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000270">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=403321">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William F. DeSaussure">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/cph/item/2001699899/"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/819/54.94.jpg" width=70 height=86 border=0 alt="Robert Barnwell Rhett"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876) — also known as Robert Rhett; Robert Barnwell Smith — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Beaufort, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/BA-born.html">Beaufort County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1800/12-21.html">December 21, 1800</a>. Democrat. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/attygn.html">South Carolina state attorney general</a>, 1832; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from South Carolina</a>, 1837-49 (7th District 1837-39, 6th District 1839-41, 7th District 1841-49); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1850-52; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-62; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/cpdel.html">Delegate from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress</a>, 1861-62. Slaveowner. Died in <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/LA/SJ-died.html">St. James Parish</a>, La., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1876/09-14.html">September 14, 1876</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/75.html">75 years, 268 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-buried.html#cms00368">Magnolia Cemetery</a>, Charleston, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of James Hervey Smith and Marianna Barnwell (Gough) Smith; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1827/02-21.html">February 21, 1827</a>, to Elizabeth Washington Burnet (sister of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#966.10.05">Andrew William Burnet</a>); father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; second great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1310.html">DeSaussure-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000184">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=409160">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert Rhett">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/18826">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Robert Barnwell Rhett: William C. Davis, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570034397/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1570034397&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, February 9, 1861</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Andrew William Burnet (1811-1896) — of Charleston, Charleston District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>), S.C. Born in Colleton District (now <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CO-born.html">Colleton County</a>), S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1811/06-12.html">June 12, 1811</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/seccn.html">Delegate to South Carolina secession convention</a> from St. Philips' & St. Michael's, 1860-62. Died <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1896/12-06.html">December 6, 1896</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/85.html">85 years, 177 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-buried.html#cms00368">Magnolia Cemetery</a>, Charleston, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Andrew William Burnet (1763-1814) and Elizabeth Washington (de Saussure) Burnet; brother of Elizabeth Washington Burnet (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#819.54.94">Robert Barnwell Rhett</a>); married to Anne Burgh Smith; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#762.54.29">Henry William de Saussure</a>; uncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#547.83.25">Daniel DeSaussure</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>; first cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#467.25.67">William Ford DeSaussure</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#774.47.67">Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1310.html">DeSaussure-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/42326279">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure (1822-1886) — also known as Wilmot G. de Saussure — Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1822/07-23.html">July 23, 1822</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/lawyer.html">Lawyer</a>; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a>, 1848-49, 1854-57, 1860-63; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/adgen.html">Adjutant General of South Carolina</a>, 1862. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/french.html">French Huguenot</a> ancestry. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/masons.html">Freemasons</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/odd-fellows.html">Odd Fellows</a>. Died in Ocala, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/FL/MR-died.html">Marion County</a>, Fla., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1886/02-01.html">February 1, 1886</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/63.html">63 years, 193 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-buried.html#cms00368">Magnolia Cemetery</a>, Charleston, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Henry A. de Saussure and Susan (Boone) de Saussure; married to Martha Gourdin; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#467.25.67">William Ford DeSaussure</a>; grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#762.54.29">Henry William de Saussure</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#547.83.25">Daniel DeSaussure</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#966.10.05">Andrew William Burnet</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1310.html">DeSaussure-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/7941579">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr. (1828-1905) — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1828/02-25.html">February 25, 1828</a>. Member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/sthse.html">South Carolina state house of representatives</a> from Charleston County, 1876-78. Died in Huntsville, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MA-died.html">Madison County</a>, Ala., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1905/01-29.html">January 29, 1905</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/76.html">76 years, 339 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/AL/MA-buried.html#cms00610">Maple Hill Cemetery</a>, Huntsville, Ala. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#819.54.94">Robert Barnwell Rhett</a> and Elizabeth Washington (Burnett) Rhett; married to Josephine Horton and Harriet Moore; nephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#966.10.05">Andrew William Burnet</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#762.54.29">Henry William de Saussure</a>; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#371.25.73">Burnet Rhett Maybank</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#547.83.25">Daniel DeSaussure</a>; great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#467.25.67">William Ford DeSaussure</a>; second cousin of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#774.47.67">Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1310.html">DeSaussure-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1676.html">Maybank-Myers-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/106238668">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Burnet Rhett Maybank (1899-1954) — also known as Burnet R. Maybank — of Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-lived.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C. Born in Charleston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-born.html">Charleston County</a>, S.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1899/03-07.html">March 7, 1899</a>. Democrat. Served in the U.S. Navy during World War I; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/cotton.html">cotton</a> <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/import-export.html">exporter</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/charleston.html">mayor of Charleston, S.C.</a>, 1931-38; delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1936/SC.html">1936</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1940/SC.html">1940</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/SC.html">1944</a> (<a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1944/speakers.html">speaker</a>), <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/SC.html">1952</a> (member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/1952/committees.html">Credentials Committee</a>); <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/gov.html">Governor of South Carolina</a>, 1939-41; member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/parties/D/SC.html">Democratic National Committee from South Carolina</a>, 1940; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from South Carolina</a>, 1941-54; died in office 1954. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/episcopalian.html">Episcopalian</a>. Died, of a <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/heart.html">heart attack</a>, in Flat Rock, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NC/HE-died.html">Henderson County</a>, N.C., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1954/09-01.html">September 1, 1954</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/55.html">55 years, 178 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/SC/CH-buried.html#cms00368">Magnolia Cemetery</a>, Charleston, S.C. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Joseph Maybank and Harriet Lowndes (Rhett) Maybank; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1923/">1923</a> to Elizabeth DeRosset Myers (daughter of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/myers.html#065.38.31">Francis Kerchner Myers</a>); married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1948/">1948</a> to Mary Cecil; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mayall-maynadier.html#104.12.31">Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr.</a>; grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#405.72.56">Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr.</a>; great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reynoldson-rhoads.html#819.54.94">Robert Barnwell Rhett</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aiken.html#486.73.74">William Aiken Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/foy-franchot.html#897.08.73">John Edward Frampton</a>; great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burket-burnet.html#966.10.05">Andrew William Burnet</a>; second great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#902.42.65">Thomas Lowndes</a>; second great-grandnephew of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#762.54.29">Henry William de Saussure</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#647.42.85">William Jones Lowndes</a>; third great-grandson of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lowndes.html#267.92.16">Rawlins Lowndes</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#547.83.25">Daniel DeSaussure</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#467.25.67">William Ford DeSaussure</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/derrick-destrehan.html#774.47.67">Wilmot Gibbes de Saussure</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/brown2.html#133.27.94">Charles Pinckney Brown</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1310.html">DeSaussure-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1676.html">Maybank-Myers-Rhett family</a> of Charleston, South Carolina (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000279">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=407296">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://www.nga.org/governor/burnet-rhett-maybank/">National Governors Association biography</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnet R. 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