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James B. Edwards

James B. Edwards

Former Governor of South Carolina
James Burrows Edwards was an American politician and administrator from South Carolina. He was the first Republican to be elected governor of South Carolina since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era in the 1870s. He later served as the U.S.... Wikipedia
Born: June 24, 1927, Hawthorne, FL
Died: December 26, 2014 (age 87 years), Mount Pleasant, SC
Previous offices: United States Secretary of Energy (1981–1982), Governor of South Carolina (1975–1979), and South Carolina State Senator (1973–1975)