Background
Henry Middleton was the son of Mary (Izard) and Arthur Middleton, 1742-1787. He was born in London and reared in South Carolina.
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Henry Middleton was the son of Mary (Izard) and Arthur Middleton, 1742-1787. He was born in London and reared in South Carolina.
Henry Middleton studied in South Carolina and in England as well.
Henry Middleton traveled extensively both in Europe and America. He inherited "Middleton Place, " on which he lavished money and labor. Although the azaleas, so much a feature of the modern gardens, were set out by his son, it was he who planted the first of the camellias, the gift of his friend, André Michaux. He served in both houses of the state legislature for ten years and then as governor of South Carolina from 1810 to 1812. As governor and after the expiration of his term, he supported a war policy in 1812. He represented his state in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth congresses, from 1815 to 1819, and then became minister to Russia. With a good deal of skill, he negotiated with Russia the convention of 1824 to regulate trade and fisheries in the Pacific. In 1830 he returned to America with the thought that his days of public service were over, but the nullification controversy soon called him from his retirement. He was a delegate to an anti-tariff convention that assembled at Philadelphia on September 30, 1831, and submitted a memorial to Congress proposing the rates of 1816 as a satisfactory compromise. When, in the fall of 1832, the South Carolina Nullifiers obtained the two-thirds of the state legislature constitutionally necessary to call a state convention, he was one of the few Union men elected to this convention and sought in vain to prevent the adoption of the Nullification Ordinance. In the December convention at Columbia, representing the strong Unionist minority, he became one of the vice-presidents, and he was appointed to solicit the legislature of Tennessee to attend a convention in which the other Southern states should participate in order to consider possible constitutional measures of resistance. He died at Charleston survived by eight of his twelve children.
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Henry Middleton was among those who disagreed with Calhoun as to the wisdom and the constitutionality of nullification and became one of the leaders of what was called the Union party.
On November 13, 1794, Middleton was married to Mary Helen Hering of Heybridge Hall, England. They had twelve children. Of his children the most distinguished was Henry Middleton (1797 - 1876), who devoted his attention to writing on political and economic subjects.