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| Date Born: March 7, 1899 |
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Date Died: September 1, 1954 |
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| Place Born: Charleston, SC |
Place Buried: Magnolia Cemetery in Charleston, SC |
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| Residence: Charleston, SC |
Occupation: Cotton Exporter |
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Porter Military Academy Mayor of Charleston, 1931-1938 1938 - Maybank was elected governor without opposition, receiving 49,009 votes. Maybank was the first Charlestonian to be elected governor since the Civil War November 4, 1941 – Governor Maybank resigned to become a US Senator Maybank served on the American Battle Monuments Commission, 1947-1954 Maybank served in the US Senate from the time he resigned as governor until his death, 1941-1954 Maybank, Burnet Rhett, a Senator from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., March 7, 1899; attended the public schools; graduated from Porter Military Academy, Charleston, S.C., and from the College of Charleston, South Carolina; served in the Navy during the First World War; engaged in the cotton export business 1920-1938; alderman of Charleston, S.C., 1927-1931; mayor of Charleston 1931-1938; member of the South Carolina State Advisory Board of the Federal Administration of Public Works 1933-1934; chairman of the South Carolina Public Service Authority 1934-1939; member of the Board of Bank Control 1933-1934; Governor of South Carolina 1939-1941; elected on September 30, 1941, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James F. Byrnes; reelected in 1942 and 1948 and served from November 5, 1941, until his death; chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on Defense Production (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses); died at his summer home in Flat Rock, N.C., September 1, 1954; interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C. |
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