
Duncan Clinch Heyward (24 June 1864-23 January 1943) was the Democratic Governor of South Carolina from 20 January 1903 to 15 January 1907, succeeding Miles Benjamin McSweeney and preceding Martin Frederick Ansel.
Biography[]
Duncan Clinch Heyward was born in Richland County, South Carolina in 1864, and he became a rice planter in Walterboro. With the tacit backing of Benjamin Tillman, he was elected Governor in 1902 and served from 1903 to 1907, and he argued that, "The white race is the predominant race and the Negro must understand once and for all that the bounds of the social and political questions will be determined by the white man alone and by the white man's code." In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson appointed him a revenue collector, and he died in 1943.