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Grayson, William John was born on November 2, 1788 in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States. Son of William Grayson.
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Grayson, William John was born on November 2, 1788 in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States. Son of William Grayson.
Born in Beaufort, South Carolina, Grayson pursued classical studies, and was graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1809, where he was a member of the Clariosophic Society. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1822.
He was also a poet. He became a practicing lawyer in Beaufort, South Carolina. Grayson was elected commissioner in equity for Beaufort District in 1831 and resigned from the senate. He was elected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1837).
He then served as collector of customs at Charleston from August 9, 1841, to March 19, 1853.
After his term as collector of customs, he retired to his plantation. He was a frequent contributor to the Southern Quarterly Review.
The Oxford English Dictionary credits William J. Grayson with having first used the phrase master race, in his poem The Hireling and the Slave (1855):
Foreign these great ends hath Heaven’s supreme command
Brought the black savage from his native land,
Trains for each purpose his barbarian mind,
By slavery tamed, enlightened, and refined;
Instructs him, from a master-race, to draw
Wise modes of polity and forms of law,
Imbues his soul with faith, his heart with love,
Shapes all his life by dictates from above. where the phrase denotes the relation between the white masters and negro slaves. He died in Newberry, South Carolina, on October 4, 1863 and was interred in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina.
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Member South Carolina. House of Representatives, 1822-1826. Member South Carolina.
Senate, 1826-1831.
Member United States House of Representatives (Whig) from South Carolina., 23d-24th congresses, 1833-1837.