Robert Marion


Robert Marion was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
Born 1766 in Berkeley District, South Carolina, Marion graduated from the University of the State of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1784. He owned and managed a plantation at Belle Isle, South Carolina.
He served as a justice of quorum for St. Stephen's Parish and was the Justice of the Peace of Charleston, South Carolina. He then served in the State house of representatives from 1790 to 1796, and in the State senate from 1802 to 1805. Marion was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Ninth, Tenth, and Eleventh Congresses and served from March 4, 1805, until his resignation on December 4, 1810.
He died on his plantation in St. Stephen's Parish, March 22, 1811.