William Aiken Jr. was the 61st governor of South Carolina, serving from 1844 to 1846. He also served in the state legislature and the United States House of Representatives, running unsuccessfully for speaker of the House in 1856 in "the longest and most contentious Speaker election in House history."

David Wyatt Aiken was a slave owner, Confederate army officer during the American Civil War and a reconstruction era five-term United States Congressman from South Carolina.