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family groupings listed on
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These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
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Edward James Dennis (1844-1904) —
of Charleston
County, S.C.; Berkeley
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston District (part now in Berkeley
County), S.C., March
23, 1844.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; surveyor;
cotton
planter;
lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1880-82, 1884-85,
1892-93 (Charleston County 1880-82, Berkeley County 1884-85,
1892-93); member of South
Carolina state senate from Berkeley County, 1894-1904; defeated,
1886, 1890; died in office 1904; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Berkeley
County, 1895.
Member, United
Confederate Veterans.
Died in Macbeth, Berkeley
County, S.C., May 24,
1904 (age 60 years, 62
days).
Interment at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Cross, S.C.
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Edward James Dennis (1877-1930) —
also known as E. J. Dennis —
of Berkeley
County, S.C.
Born in Macbeth, Berkeley
County, S.C., September
23, 1877.
Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Berkeley County,
1900-04, 1916-18; member of South
Carolina state senate from Berkeley County, 1904-06, 1910-14,
1918-22, 1926-30; died in office 1930.
Methodist.
Tried
and acquitted in 1929 for conspiracy to violate the alcohol
prohibition law.
Shot
and mortally
wounded by Webster Lee 'Sporty' Thornley, on the street in front
of the post
office in Moncks Corner, S.C., and died the next day in a hospital
at Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., July 25,
1930 (age 52 years, 305
days). Thornley was tried and convicted of murder; Glenn D.
McKnight, who allegedly hired Thornley to murder Dennis, was tried
and not convicted.
Interment at St.
John's Baptist Churchyard, Pinopolis, S.C.
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Rembert Coney Dennis (1915-1992) —
also known as Rembert C. Dennis —
of Moncks Corner, Berkeley
County, S.C.
Born in Pinopolis, Berkeley
County, S.C., August
27, 1915.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Berkeley County,
1938-42; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1942-88 (Berkeley County 1942-66, 14th
District 1966-84, 37th District 1984-88); delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1944,
1948
(alternate), 1952,
1956,
1960;
candidate for justice of
South Carolina state supreme court, 1956.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Freemasons;
Scottish
Rite Masons; Shriners;
Lions;
Woodmen
of the World; Blue
Key.
Died June 20,
1992 (age 76 years, 298
days).
Interment at St.
John's Baptist Churchyard, Pinopolis, S.C.
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