Date Died: February 12, 1936

Place Buried: Greenlawn Memorial Gardens, Spartanburg, SC

Occupation: Lawyer

Furman University
Wofford College - graduated 1898

South Carolina House of Representatives, 1902-1906
Solicitor, Seventh Judicial Circuit of South Carolina, 1916-1930

Blackwood was defeated in the 1926 Democratic gubernatorial primary by John Gardiner Richards. He returned to Spartanburg to practice law after leaving office.

1930 - Blackwood was elected without opposition, receiving 17,790 votes.

1931 – The People's State Bank failed and its forty-four branches in South Carolina closed.

October 13, 1931 – The Charleston City Council passed the first Historic Preservation Ordinance in the nation.

May 19, 1934 – Governor Blackwood signed the act that created the South Carolina Public Service Authority and led to the construction of the Santee-Cooper dams

September 1934 – Seven striking textile workers were killed in Honea Path by special deputies when 45,000 of the state's 80,000 textile workers went on strike.

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