Charles D. Hayne

Charles D. Hayne (1844–1913) was an American politician, tailor, and railroad investor from South Carolina. Hayne was born in 1844 in Charleston, South Carolina. He was the son of a white father and Isabella R., a free black mother. He was the nephew of powerful South Carolina politician Robert Y. Hayne. Educated in Charleston, he worked as a tailor during his early years.
After the civil war, Hayne was employed by the Freedmen's Bureau as a teacher and sent to Barnwell County, South Carolina. He was elected as a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868 and to the South Carolina House of Representatives in the same year. He was re-elected in 1870. In that year, he was part of the initial board of Enterprise Railroad, a black-owned railroad company. He also served on the board of directors of various other corporations as well. While in office, it was alleged that he received a $200 bribe for his vote on railroad-related legislation. In 1871, he accepted a bribe from Henry G. Worthington Two years later, he was elected to the South Carolina Senate for a four-year term. He left politics with the end of Reconstruction in 1876.