loyalty to the Madison administration and the union through his military service, be appointed Secretary of War to heal the breach between the Federalist Party, now largely moribund on the national level, and the Republicans. Colonel Drayton was elected in 1824 to represent South Carolina's first district in the U.S. Congress, and served from 1825 to 1833 with repeated re-election. A unionist during the nullification controversy, in 1833 he moved his family to Philadelphia. Two years later in 1835, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. While a unionist, Drayton continued to support slavery. In Philadelphia he wrote and published The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanaticism of the Abolitionists (1836), a pro-slavery tract. He briefly became the president of the defunct Second Bank of the United States in 1841. Drayton died on May 24, 1846 in Philadelphia and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery. Legacy and honors His papers are held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The author Edgar Allan Poe dedicated his collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840) to him. Bibliography The South Vindicated from the Treason and Fanatacism of the Northern Abolitionists, H. Manly (Philadelphia), 1836 Notes External links biographic sketch at U.S. Congress website Drayton Family Papers, including correspondence from 1783–1896, Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1776 births 1846 deaths 19th-century American politicians American bankers American people of the War of 1812 Drayton family Burials at Laurel Hill Cemetery (Philadelphia) Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina Members of the American Philosophical Society People of British Florida American people of English descent Politicians from Charleston, South Carolina South Carolina Unionists Writers from Charleston, South Carolina