Benjamin Cudworth Yancey

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104358542/benjamin-cudworth-yancey

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Benjamin Cudworth Yancey was a promising young lawyer of the South Carolina upcountry. In 1812, he was elected to the South Carolina legislature, and while he was campaigning for re-election in the summer of 1814, his wife, the former Caroline Bird, visited her father's home in Georgia. There at the Shoals of Ogeechee on August 10, their son William Lowndes Yancey was born. William Lowndes Yancey (1814-1863) became an Alabama political leader and was a preeminent figure in the secession movement that brought on the Civil War. A vehement advocate for southern rights, popularly known as a "Fire-Eater," he accomplished his ultimate objective in 1860 when he precipitated the dissolution, not of the Union, but of the last truly national political organization: the Democratic Party. The dissolution of the Union soon followed.

Benjamin Cudworth Yancey served on the USS Constellation during the Quasi-War with France. (the Quasi-War was a subset of the French Revolutionary Wars)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War

Yancey, a leading South Carolina lawyer and legislator, died of malaria in 1817.

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