| Robert Gadsden McCaw | |
| Order: | 51st |
| Lieutenant Governor | |
| Governor: | Andrew Gordon Magrath |
| Term Start: | December 18, 1864 |
| Term End: | May 25, 1865 |
| Predecessor: | Plowden Weston |
| Successor: | William Porter |
| Birth Date: | 28 December 1821 |
| Party: | Democratic |
| Education: | University of Virginia |
| Serviceyears: | 1861–1865 |
| Rank: | Colonel |
| Battles: | American Civil War |
| Profession: | planter, soldier, politician |
Robert Gadsden McCaw (December 28, 1821 – November 24, 1870) was an American politician and slaveholder. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 51st Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina.[1] [2]
McCaw studied at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville before later holding approximately 135 slaves in York County, South Carolina.
McCaw served in the South Carolina House of Representatives[3] and two terms in the South Carolina Senate.[4] In 1864, McCaw was elected lieutenant governor, and he held the office until May 1865. After the Confederacy's defeat in the Civil War, South Carolina's governor, Andrew Gordon Magrath, was arrested and removed from office. McCaw did not succeed Magrath as governor because the United States government dissolved the state government of South Carolina, placing the state under the administration of the Second Military District.