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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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Walter Boyd Brown, Sr. (1920-1998) —
also known as Walter Brown, Sr.; W. B.
Brown —
of Winnsboro, Fairfield
County, S.C.
Born in Smallwood, Fairfield
County, S.C., May 16,
1920.
Son of Boyd
Brown.
Democrat. Member of South
Carolina state house of representatives; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from South Carolina, 1960,
1964,
1968;
first director of South Carolina Department of General Services;
vice-president of Norfolk Southern Corporation (formerly Southern
Railway).
Presbyterian.
Blind
in one eye. The Walter Boyd Brown Industrial Park was named for
him.
Died, following a stroke, at
Fairfield Memorial Hospital,
Winnsboro, Fairfield
County, S.C., March 9,
1998 (age 77 years, 297
days).
Interment at Bethel
Cemetery, Winnsboro, S.C.
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Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr. (1940-2005) —
also known as Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. —
of Fountain Inn, Greenville
County, S.C.
Born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., July 24,
1940.
Son of Carroll Ashmore Campbell and Anne (Williams) Campbell.
Republican. Real estate
broker; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1970-74; defeated, 1969;
delegate to Republican National Convention from South Carolina, 1972
(alternate), 1976,
1980,
1984,
1988,
1992;
candidate for Lieutenant
Governor of South Carolina, 1974; executive assistant to Gov. Jim
Edwards, 1975; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1976-78; U.S.
Representative from South Carolina 4th District, 1979-87; Governor of
South Carolina, 1987-95; candidate for Republican nomination for
President, 1996;
lobbyist;
CEO, American Council of Life
Insurers, 1995-2001; director, Norfolk Southern railroad.
Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons;
Shriners;
Sertoma;
Pi
Kappa Phi.
Died, of a heart
attack while suffering from Alzheimer's
disease, in Lexington Medical Hospital,
West Columbia, Lexington
County, S.C., December
7, 2005 (age 65 years, 136
days).
Interment at All
Saints Waccamaw Episcopal Church Cemetery, Murrells Inlet, S.C.
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Claude Ivan Dawson (b. 1877) —
also known as Claude I. Dawson —
of Anderson, Anderson
County, S.C.
Born in Burlington, Des Moines
County, Iowa, October
23, 1877.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; worked in
treasury department of Philippine Islands government, 1898-1904;
secretary of a traction company in South Carolina, 1904-08;
U.S. Consul in Puerto Cortes, 1910-12; Valencia, 1912-15; Tampico, 1915-19; U.S. Consul General in Mexico City, 1922-24; Stockholm, 1926; Rio de Janeiro, 1927-31; Barcelona, 1932.
Burial
location unknown.
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Charles Irénée du Pont (1797-1869) —
also known as Charles I. du Pont —
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., March 29,
1797.
Son of Victor Marie du Pont de Nemours (1767-1827) and Gabrielle
Joséphine de la Fite de Pelleport.
Whig. Cloth
manufacturer; president, Farmers Bank of
Delaware; an organizer of the Delaware Railroad; member of Delaware
state senate, 1841-44, 1853-56.
Died January
31, 1869 (age 71 years, 308
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Alexander Campbell King (1856-1926) —
also known as Alexander C. King —
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., December
7, 1856.
Son of J. Gadsden King and Caroline Clifford (Postell) King.
Lawyer;
attorney for railroads; U.S. Solicitor General,
1918-20; Judge of
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1920-25.
Died in Flat Rock, Henderson
County, N.C., July 26,
1926 (age 69 years, 231
days).
Entombed at Oakland
Cemetery, Atlanta, Ga.
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Alexander Robert Lawton (1818-1896) —
also known as Alexander R. Lawton —
of Georgia.
Born in St. Peter's Parish, Beaufort District (now part of Beaufort
County), S.C., November
4, 1818.
Son of Alexander James Lawton and Martha (Mosse) Lawton.
Democrat. Lawyer;
president, Augusta and Savannah Railroad, 1849-54; member of
Georgia
state house of representatives, 1855-56, 1870-75; member of Georgia
state senate, 1860; general in the Confederate Army during the
Civil War; member of Democratic
National Committee from Georgia, 1876; delegate to
Georgia state constitutional convention, 1877; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1880,
1884;
U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary, 1887-89.
Member, American Bar
Association.
Died in Clifton Springs, Ontario
County, N.Y., July 2,
1896 (age 77 years, 241
days).
Interment at Bonaventure
Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.
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George Lamb Buist Rivers (b. 1896) —
also known as Buist Rivers —
of Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C.
Born in Charleston, Charleston
County, S.C., May 26,
1896.
Son of Moultrie Rutledge Rivers and Eliza Ingraham (Buist) Rivers.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of South
Carolina state house of representatives, 1924-28; member of South
Carolina state senate, 1930; president, The Central
Railroad of South Carolina; director and counsel, Citizens and
Southern National Bank;
director, Life and Accident Insurance
Company; vice president and counsel of radio
station WCSC.
Episcopalian.
Member, American Bar
Association; Alpha
Tau Omega; Freemasons;
Kiwanis.
Burial
location unknown.
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