- Born
- June 9, 1791
- Died
- April 10, 1852
- Country
- United States
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Actor, poet, playwright who had most of his success in London. Payne opposed the forced removal of the Cherokees from Georgia to Oklahoma and was serving as the American consul general in Tunis at the time of his death there.
Inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970
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