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William A. Barber (1869-1950) —
of South Carolina.
Born in Chester
County, S.C., 1869.
Son of Capt. Osmund Barber and Mary (Westbrook) Barber.
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:
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.
Son of Simon Baruch and Belle (Wolfe) Baruch.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from New York,
1932,
1952;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1932;
Presidential Elector for New York, 1932;
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.
Son of William Christie Benet and Susan (McGowan) Benet.
Democrat. Lawyer;
Solicitor, 5th Circuit, 1908-09; U.S.
Senator from South Carolina, 1918.
Episcopalian.
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.
Son of George
Seabrook Bryan and Rebecca L. (Dwight) Bryan.
Lawyer;
delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention, 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.
Son of John
James Davis and Anna (Kennedy) Davis.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Harrison County, 1899;
candidate for Presidential Elector for West Virginia, 1900;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from West Virginia, 1904;
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, Glen Cove, Long Island, N.Y.
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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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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.
Son of Thomas Harrington Pope (1876-1943) and Marie (Gary) Pope
(1882-1964).
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 in primary
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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Relatives:
Grandson of Eugene
Blackburn Gary; son of Thomas Harrington Pope (1876-1943) and
Marie (Gary) Pope (1882-1964); married to Mary Waties Lumpkin
(1917-2008). |
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Historian." |
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memorial |
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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.
Son of John Wesley Roper and Henrietta V. (McLaurin) Roper.
Democrat. Lawyer; publicist;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1892-94; U.S.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 1917-20; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from District of Columbia, 1924,
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 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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John Carl West (1922-2004) —
of near Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C.
Born in Camden, Kershaw
County, S.C., August
27, 1922.
Son of Shelton J. West and Mattie (Ratterree) West.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state senate from Kershaw County, 1955-62; 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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