Haywood, William Henry III

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William Henry Haywood, III was born in Raleigh (Wake County), North Carolina on October 23, 1801. Haywood was an attorney and politician who served as a state legislator and United States Senator. He was also an enslaver and "hired" out the labor of an enslaved man named Peter to the construction of the new state capitol in the 1830s. He died in Raleigh on October 7, 1852.

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Biography of William Henry Haywood III
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