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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 ...
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.
The constitutional convention met on September 10 and adjourned on December 4, 1895. By the new constitution, South Carolina adopted the Mississippi Plan until January 1, 1898. Any male citizen could be registered who was able to read a section of the constitution or to satisfy the election officer that he understood it when read to him.
He began his political career in the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1890 as a Democrat and protégé of Benjamin Tillman. [5] In 1895, the state legislature ratified a new constitution that essentially disfranchised Black people, thus crippling the state's Republican Party, which they supported.
Benjamin Tillman: Democratic: Mar 4, 1895 – ... South Carolina ratified the United States Constitution on May 23, 1788.
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 ...
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 .
U.S. Senator Benjamin Tillman explained how African Americans were disenfranchised in his state of South Carolina in a white supremacist speech: In my State there were 135,000 negro voters, or negroes of voting age, and some 90,000 or 95,000 white voters....