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In all elections from 1792 to 1860, South Carolina did not conduct a popular vote. Each Elector was appointed by the state legislature. The election of 1824 was a complex realigning election following the collapse of the prevailing Democratic-Republican Party , resulting in four different candidates each claiming to carry the banner of the ...
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border.
1932 United States presidential election in South Carolina [1] Party Candidate Running mate Popular vote Electoral vote Count % Count % Democratic: Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York: John Nance Garner of Texas: 102,347: 98.03%: 8: 100.00%: Republican: Herbert Hoover of California: Charles Curtis of Kansas: 1,978 1.89% 0 0.00% Socialist ...
The president of the United States is the head of state and head of government of the United States, [1] indirectly elected to a four-year term via the Electoral College. [2] Under the U.S. Constitution , the officeholder leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces . [ 3 ]
With Roosevelt winning 98.57% of the vote, this was the most emphatic win for any presidential candidate against another in any state in American history. South Carolina voted for Democratic Party candidate and incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, over Republican Party candidate incumbent Governor of Kansas Alf Landon.
A statue of Strom Thurmond is located on the southern grounds of the South Carolina State Capitol as a memorial to his service to the state. The Strom Thurmond Federal Building and United States Courthouse in Columbia, South Carolina, is named after him. [343] Strom Thurmond High School is located in his hometown of Edgefield, South Carolina.
The 1944 United States presidential election in South Carolina took place on November 7, 1944, as part of the 1944 United States presidential election. State voters chose 8 electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president. For six decades South Carolina had been a one-party state dominated by the Democratic Party.
Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston (November 9, 1896 – April 18, 1965) was an American politician from the US state of South Carolina.He served as the 98th governor of South Carolina, from 1935 to 1939 and again from 1943 to 1945.