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Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 – July 3, 1918) was a politician of the Democratic Party who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918.
"Maximum Battleship" Design no.1. The "Maximum battleships," also known as the "Tillman battleships," were a series of World War I-era design studies for extremely large battleships, prepared in late 1916 and early 1917 upon the order of Senator "Pitchfork" Benjamin Tillman [1] by the Bureau of Construction and Repair (C&R) of the United States Navy. [2]
The men in the Hamburg Company militia were entirely black and mostly freedmen.A white supremacist group called the Red Shirts, led by Benjamin Tillman, who later went on serve a 24-year career in the United States Senate and whose term was marked by enacting racist legislation, instigated confrontations with the black citizens by claiming that said freedmen intentionally blocked passage of ...
Senator Benjamin Tillman, a proponent of the 1895 Constitution. Despite the suppression of African American voting rights, many whites still feared African Americans' political power. As a result, in 1894, Governor John Gary Evans, and his mentor, Senator Benjamin Tillman, called for a new constitutional convention to be held in the state ...
The general election was held on November 4, 1890 and Ben Tillman was elected as governor of South Carolina, only losing the counties of Beaufort and Berkeley to Haskell. Turnout increased for this election over the previous election because it was the first contested general election for governor since the gubernatorial election of 1882.
Introduced in the Senate as S. 4563 by Benjamin Tillman (D-SC) Signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on January 26, 1907 The Tillman Act of 1907 (34 Stat. 864) was the first campaign finance law in the United States .
Benjamin Tillman was instrumental in the founding of Clemson University and early antagonism between the two schools. Benjamin Tillman emerged in the 1880s as a leader of the agrarian movement in South Carolina and demanded that the South Carolina College take agricultural education more seriously by expanding the agriculture department. [28]
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