AIKEN, Wyatt (son of David Wyatt Aiken), a Representative from South Carolina; born near Macon, Ga., December
14, 1863; reared in Cokesbury, Abbeville (now Greenwood)
County, S.C.; attended the public schools of Cokesbury and
of Washington, D.C.; official court reporter for the second
South Carolina judicial circuit and, later, for the eighth circuit; volunteered as a private in Company A, First South
Carolina Regiment of Infantry, during the war with Spain;
later appointed battalion adjutant by Governor Ellerbe, and
acted as regimental quartermaster during the greater portion of his service; was mustered out in Columbia, S.C.,
November 10, 1898; elected as a Democrat to the Fiftyeighth and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-
March 3, 1917); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1916 and again in 1918; lived in retirement until his death
in Abbeville, S.C., February 6, 1923; interment in Melrose
Cemetery.
