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Also Known As Robert Francis Withers Allston
Born April 21, 1801 • South Carolina
Died April 7, 1864 (aged 62) • Georgetown • South Carolina
Title / Office governor (1856-1858), South Carolina

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Robert Allston, detail of an oil painting by George Whiting Flagg, 1850s; in a private collection
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