Robert Blair Campbell, a U.S. congressman and diplomat, was born at Woodstock (Argyle) Plantation, 3 ½ miles southwest. He was a Brigadier General in the State Militia and served in the S.C. Senate in 1822-23 and 1830-34. He represented this district in the U.S. Congress from 1823-25 and 1834-37, served as U.S. Consul to Cuba from 1842-50 and to England from 1854-61, and died in 1862, when he was buried in London. John Campbell, a U.S. congressman and the younger brother of Robert Blair Campbell, was born 3 ½ miles southwest of here. He graduated from the South Carolina College in 1819 and practiced law in Brownsville and Parnassus. He served in Congress as a States Rights Whig from 1829-31 and as a States Rights Democrat from 1837-45, and he died in 1845 and was buried in the family cemetery.