Governor of the State of South Carolina - Coleman Livingstone Blease




Coleman Livingston Blease
60th Governor of the State of South Carolina 1911 to 1915

Date Born: October 8, 1868				Date Died: January 19, 1942
Place Born: Near Newberry, SC				Place Buried: Rosemont Cemetery, Newberry, SC
Residence: Newberry County, SC				Occupation: Lawyer

Newberry College University of South Carolina Georgetown University - graduated 1889 South Carolina House of Representatives, 1890-1894, 1899-1900 South Carolina Senate, 1904-1908 Mayor of Newberry, SC, 1910 US Senate, 1925-1931 On November 8, 1910, Blease was elected to his first term of governor without opposition, receiving 30,739 votes. On November 5, 1912, Blease was re-elected without opposition, receiving 44,122 votes. January 14, 1915 – Governor Blease resigned just five days before the end of his second term 1911-1915 – Over the course of his two terms in office, Governor Blease exercised his power to pardon over 1,500 times Blease, Coleman Livingston, a Senator from South Carolina; born near Newberry, Newberry County, S.C., October 8, 1868; attended the common schools; graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1889; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Newberry, S.C.; member, State house of representatives 1890-1894, 1899, and 1900, serving as speaker pro tempore 1892-1894; mayor of Helena, S.C., in 1897; city attorney of Newberry in 1901 and 1902; member, State senate 1905-1909, serving as president pro tempore in 1906 and 1907; mayor of Newberry in 1910; Governor of South Carolina 1911-1915; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1925, to March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1934 and 1938; elected a member of the State unemployment compensation commission for a four-year term beginning in 1941; died in Columbia, S.C., January 19, 1942; interment in Rosemont Cemetery, Newberry, S.C.

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