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admitted to the bar in 18r3. He served in the war of 1812 in the 3d South Carolina regiment and at the conclusion of the treaty of peace re- sumed the practice of his profession in Charles- ton, lie was a representative in the general assembly of the state, 1814-18, serving as speaker of the house in 1818. He was attorney- general of the state, 1818-22; U.S. sen- ator, 1823-;^2; gov- ernor of the state, 1832-34; mayor of Charleston, 183r)-37, and jn-esident of the Cincinnati & Charles- ton railroad, 183G-39. In the U.S. senate he opposed a pro- tective tariff as un- constitutional and oppressive, favoi-ed tariff for revenue only, and opposed Henry Clay in 1832, by an amendment to Clay's resolution in the senate, v.-hich jirovided a reduction of duties to a point that would afford a revenue necessary to defray the actual expenses of the government, which amendment was defeated. In the debate that followed Senator Haj^ne asserted " the right of a state under the Federal coniimct, to arrest the operation of a law adopted hy congress, and sanc- tioned hy the President, which the state in con- vention should decide to be unconstitutional." Tiiis stateinent led to the Foote resolutions and to "Weljster's celebrated reply to Ilayne and in the deljate between the two statesmen the rights of the states was ably defended by Senator Hayne, and while Webster won imperishable renown, the friends of Hayne claimed for him the " weight <.f argument and truth." ' The legislature of South Carolina called a state convention to meet in Columbia, Nov. 24, 1832, over which Hayne ]iresided, and the ordinance of nullification was .idopted. In the following December, Senator Hayne was elected governor of the state, and re- signed his seat in the senate to assume the gov- ernorship, and in the meantime John C. Caliioun resigned the vice-presidency to succeed Hayne as U.S. senator. When President Jackson on Dec. 10, 1832. issued his ])roclamation denouncing the measure. Governor Hayne replied defiantly and I>repared for armed resistance. This led to the compromise measures proposed by Clay and the President, and the legislature of Soutli Carolina railed another .state convention, jiresided ov6r by Governor Hayne. wlien the ordinance of nullifica- 1 ion was repealed. He died while attending a rail- road convention, in A.sheville. N.C., Sept. 24. 1839.


HAYNES, Emory James, clergyman, was born in Cabot, Washington county, Vt., Feb. 6, 1847; son of Zadoc Seymour and Marion Walace (Bay ley) Haynes; grandson of Walter Haynes of Vernon, Vt., and a descendant of John Haynes of Sudbury, Mass., who came with his brother Walter from England to Boston, Massachusetts Hay. in 1(538. He was graduated from Weslejan university in 18G7, and joined the Providence con- ference of the Metiiodist Episcopal church in that year. He was pastor at Norwich, Conn.. 1868- 70; St. Paul's church. Fall River, Mass., 1870-71; was transferred to the New York East confer- ence in 1872, and built and was pastor of the Hanson Place Metiiodist Episcopal church in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1872-74, and of Grace church in Brooklyn, 1875-76. He was converted to the Baptist faith and was pastor of the Washington Avenue Bajitist church in Brooklyn, 1877-81, and pastor of Ti-emont Temple, Boston, Mass., 1881- 87. He then returned to the Methodist denomi- nation, and was pastor of the People's Metiiodist church, Boston, 1887-93. In 1894 he accepted the ])astorate of St. James Methodist church. New York city. He received the degree of D.D. from Wesleyan university He is the author of: Are The><c ThimjH So? excerpts from sermons preached in 1879 (1880); Fairest of TJiree; Weddhuj in War Timaft; Dollars and Duty; None Such (1893); and A Farm House Cobweb; and of editorial contribu- tions to the New York Mail and Express and other papers.

HAYNES, George Henry, educator, was born in Sturl)ridgp, Mass., Marcli 20, 1886; son of Henry Dunton and Eliza (Carter) Haynes; and grand.son of Henry and Julia (Dunton) Haynes and of George and Nancy (Carter) Carter. His ancestor, Walter Haynes, came to Boston, Mass., from England in 1638, and was one of the settlers of Sudbury, Dec. 22, 1639. George attended the Hitchcock Free high school at Brinifield, Mass., and was graduated from Amherst in 1887. From the Joiins Hopkins university in 1893 he received the degree of Ph.D. in the department of history. He was instructor in German;ind mathematics in the Worcester polytechnic insti- tute, 1887-90, and was elec-ted profes.sor of history and economics in 1893. He was made a member of the American historical association in 1893, and of the American anti<iuarian society in 1896. He ))ul)lis1ied I'eprf'sentation and Snffraiiein Massa- chnsrtls, 1620-01 (189-1); and articles on political history in various ina.trnzinns.

HAYNES, Henry Williamson, archfpologist, was born in Bangor. .Maine, Sept 20. 1831; son of Natlianiel and Caroline Jemima (Williamson) Haynes; grandson of Jolin and Lydia (Coffin) Haynes and of William Dinkcc and Jemima Jfon- tague (Rice) Williamson, and a descendant of