William Waters Boyce
U. S. House of Representatives, South Carolina, 1853-1860
Confederate Congressman, South Carolina, 1861-1864
Born: October 24, 1818, Charleston, South Carolina.
Died: February 3, 1890, at his country home, "Ashland," in Fairfax County, Virginia.
- Attended South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina),
- Columbia, South Carolina, and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
- Studied law, was admitted to the bar, 1839, and practiced law in Winnsboro, South Carolina.
- Member of the South Carolina State House of Representatives.
- Elected from South Carolina as a State Rights Democrat to the Thirty-third and to the three succeeding U. S. Congresses, serving from March 4, 1853, until his retirement on Decernber 21, 1860.
- Appointed a delegate from South Carolina to the Confederate Provisional Congress January 4, 1861.
- Elected as a member of the First and Second Confederate Congresses, 1862-1864.
- Moved to Washington, D. C., 1866, and practiced law until his retirement a few years before his death.
Buried: Episcopal Cemetery, Winnsboro, Fairfield County, South Carolina.
(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)