Payne, John Howard
dramatist, actor, was born June 9, 1792, in New York city. He was a dramatist and actor of New York city in whose drama of Clari, the Maid of Milan, occurs the famous lyric, Home, Sweet Home, his chief claim to remembrance. From 1841 till his death he was United States consul at Tunis, his remains being removed from there to Washington in 1883. His best plays include, Brutus; Virginius; and Charles II. He died in 1852 in Tunis, Africa.