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Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 – July 3, 1918) was a politician of the Democratic Party who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918.
Apr 11, 2024 · Ben Tillman, U.S. populist politician who championed agrarian reform and white supremacy. He served as governor of South Carolina (1890–94) and in the U.S. Senate (1895–1918) and helped found Clemson University. An unabashed racist, he was a member of the terrorist white supremacist Red Shirts.
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Benjamin Ryan Tillman Jr. (Aug. 11, 1847-July 3, 1918), governor of South Carolina and U.S. senator, was born on August 11, 1847, at Chester, his family's plantation in Edgefield District, South Carolina, the youngest child of Sophia Hancock and Benjamin Ryan Tillman, planters and innkeepers.
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Jul 14, 2020 · Today, Benjamin Ryan Tillman - a statue honoring Tillman went up at the South Carolina Statehouse in 1940. His name is also on a building at Clemson University. He was a longtime senator...
Jun 28, 2016 · 6 minutes to read. U.S. senator, governor. Tillman was born in Edgefield District on August 11, 1847, to Benjamin and Sophia Tillman. The family was wealthy in land and slaves, and Ben Tillman was educated in local schoolhouses and on the family’s acres.
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Jun 17, 2020 · Greenville News. 0:02. 0:45. COLUMBIA – The marchers stood where they could see and be seen as speakers took the microphone to demand police reform from the Statehouse's steps. They listened from...
Throughout his political career, which spanned from 1890 until his death in 1918, Benjamin R. Tillman used two methods to silence Black voices in South Carolina: intimidation through violence and the suppression of legal rights.
