Smalls, Robert
naval officer, state senator, congressman, was born April 5, 1829, in Beaufort, S. C. In 1868 he was a member of the South Carolina house of representatives; and he also filled the unexpired term in the state senate for two years. In 1872 he was re-elected to that position; and was made brigadiergeneral and afterwards major-general of state troops. In 1874 he was elected a representative from South Carolina to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the forty-fifth, forty-seventh, fortyeighth and forty-ninth congresses as a republican.