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William A. Barber (1869-1950) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Chester
County, S.C., 1869.
Lawyer;
South
Carolina state attorney general, 1895-96; president, Carolina &
Northwestern Railway,
1900-17.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Psi; American Bar
Association.
Died February
7, 1950 (age about 80
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Capt. Osmund Barber and Mary (Westbrook) Barber; married 1921 to
Melanie Wilmer Gordon. |
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Herman Benjamin Baruch (1872-1953) —
also known as Herman B. Baruch —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Huntington, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., April
28, 1872.
Democrat. Physician;
stockbroker;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York, 1932,
1952;
candidate for Presidential Elector for New York; U.S. Ambassador to
Portugal, 1945-47; Netherlands, 1947-49.
Jewish.
Member, American
Arbitration Association; Phi Beta Kappa; Kappa
Sigma.
Died in Wyandanch, Suffolk
County, Long Island, N.Y., March
15, 1953 (age 80 years, 321
days).
Interment at Flushing
Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, N.Y.
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Christie Benet (1879-1951) —
of Columbia, Richland
County, S.C.
Born in Abbeville, Abbeville
County, S.C., December
26, 1879.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Solicitor, 5th Circuit, 1908-09; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1918.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
ancestry. Member, American Bar
Association; Rotary;
Phi
Delta Phi; Phi Beta Kappa; Alpha
Tau Omega; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Died in Columbia, Richland
County, S.C., March
30, 1951 (age 71 years, 94
days).
Interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Columbia, S.C.
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John P. Kennedy Bryan (b. 1852) —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., September
10, 1852.
Lawyer;
delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from Charleston
County, 1895.
Episcopalian.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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John William Davis (1873-1955) —
also known as John W. Davis —
of Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.; Locust Valley, Nassau
County, Long Island, N.Y.
Born in Clarksburg, Harrison
County, W.Va., April
13, 1873.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Harrison County, 1899;
candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1904
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization); U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 1st District, 1911-13; resigned
1913; U.S. Solicitor General, 1913-18; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1918-21; candidate for Democratic nomination for
President, 1920;
candidate for President
of the United States, 1924; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from New York, 1928,
1932.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi Beta Kappa; Freemasons;
Council on
Foreign Relations.
Died in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March
24, 1955 (age 81 years, 345
days).
Interment at Locust
Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, Long Island, N.Y.
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Peronneau Finley Henderson (1877-1968) —
also known as P. F. Henderson —
of Aiken, Aiken
County, S.C.
Born in Aiken, Aiken
County, S.C., November
29, 1877.
Democrat. Lawyer;
president, Carolina Light &
Power Co.; vice-president, Georgia-Carolina Electric
Co.; director, South Carolina Power
Co., Powell Hardware
Co.; receiver, Langley Cotton
Mills Co.; treasurer, Aiken Hospital;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from South Carolina, 1924.
Southern
Presbyterian. Member, American Bar
Association; Phi Beta Kappa; Beta
Theta Pi; Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Kiwanis.
Died April 7,
1968 (age 90 years, 130
days).
Interment at Bethany Cemetery, Aiken, S.C.
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Philip J. Lader (b. 1946) —
of Hilton Head Island, Beaufort
County, S.C.
Born in Jackson Heights, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., March
17, 1946.
Lawyer;
candidate for Governor of
South Carolina, 1986; U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, 1997-2001.
Episcopalian.
Member, Council on
Foreign Relations; Phi Beta Kappa.
Still living as of 2001.
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Basil Manly (b. 1886) —
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., March
14, 1886.
Democrat. Economist;
member, Federal Power Commission, 1933-45; chair, Federal Power
Commission, 1944-45.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Charles Manly. |
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M. Blane Michael (1943-2011) —
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., February
17, 1943.
Lawyer;
assistant U.S. Attorney under Whitney
North Seymour, Jr., 1971-72; law clerk for U.S. District Judge Robert
E. Maxwell, 1975-76; legal counsel to Gov. John
D. Rockefeller IV, 1977-80; campaign manager for Rockefeller (for
Governor, 1980, and for U.S. Senator, 1984, 1990), and for U.S. Sen
Robert
C. Byrd (1982, 1988); Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, 1993-2011; died in
office 2011.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Died in Charleston, Kanawha
County, W.Va., March
25, 2011 (age 68 years, 36
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Thomas Harrington Pope Jr. (1913-1999) —
also known as Thomas H. Pope —
of Newberry, Newberry
County, S.C.
Born in Kinards, Newberry
County, S.C., July 28,
1913.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1937-40, 1946-50; Speaker of
the South Carolina State House of Representatives, 1949-50;
colonel in the U.S. Army during World War II; candidate for Governor of
South Carolina, 1950; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from South Carolina, 1956;
South
Carolina Democratic state chair, 1958.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Phi Beta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Died, in Newberry County Memorial Hospital,
Newberry, Newberry
County, S.C., August
23, 1999 (age 86 years, 26
days).
Interment at Rosemont
Cemetery, Newberry, S.C.
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Daniel Calhoun Roper (1867-1943) —
also known as Daniel C. Roper —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Marlboro
County, S.C., April 1,
1867.
Democrat. Lawyer; publicist;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from Marlboro County,
1892-94; U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1917-20; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from District of Columbia, 1924
(member, Credentials
Committee), 1932,
1936;
U.S.
Secretary of Commerce, 1933-38; U.S. Minister to Canada, 1939.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Phi Beta Kappa.
Died, from leukemia,
in Washington,
D.C., April
11, 1943 (age 76 years, 10
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Joseph Wright Twinam (1934-2001) —
also known as Joseph W. Twinam —
Born in Chattanooga, Hamilton
County, Tenn., 1934.
Foreign Service officer; U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain, 1974-76.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Suffered head injuries in an accidental fall at
his home, and died several days later, in a hospital
at Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., June 12,
2001 (age about 66
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Wade Stackhouse Weatherford Jr. (b. 1920) —
of Gaffney, Cherokee
County, S.C.
Born in Manning, Clarendon
County, S.C., May 10,
1920.
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1961-66; member of South
Carolina state senate 5th District, 1967; resigned 1967; circuit
judge in South Carolina 7th Circuit; elected 1967.
Member, Phi Beta Kappa.
Presumed deceased.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Wade S. Weatherford and Susie (Richbourg) Weatherford; married, October
28, 1944, to Eleanor Redyke. |
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John Carl West (1922-2004) —
also known as John C. West —
of near Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C.
Born in Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., August
27, 1922.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state senate from Kershaw County, 1955-66; Governor of
South Carolina, 1971-75; U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, 1977-81.
Presbyterian.
Member, Kiwanis;
Phi Beta Kappa; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight.
Died March
21, 2004 (age 81 years, 207
days).
Interment at Forest
Lawn Memorial Park, Camden, S.C.
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