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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 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 .
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 ...
Pages in category "Benjamin Tillman" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Benjamin Tillman;
Ben Tillman's Baby: The Dispensary System of South Carolina, 1892-1915. (1950) Huggins, Phillip Kenneth (1971). The South Carolina Dispensary; A Bottle Collector's Atlas and History of the System. Sandlapper Press, Inc. ISBN 0-87844-006-2. Heath, Frederick M. and Kinard, Harriet H. "Prohibition in South Carolina, 1880-1940: an Overview."
Rule XIX originated from a fistfight that occurred in the 57th United States Congress between South Carolina senators John McLaurin and Ben Tillman on February 22, 1902. [3] Tillman, the senior senator and former governor of South Carolina, had helped to foster McLaurin's career. [4]
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