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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.
Benjamin Ryan Tillman. 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.
Jul 14, 2020 · July 14, 20203:59 PM ET. Heard on All Things Considered. 8-Minute Listen. Playlist. NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Stephen Kantrowitz, a history professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,...
Tillman, Benjamin “Pitchfork” 1847–1918. Benjamin Ryan (“Pitchfork Ben”) Tillman was born into a wealthy slaveholding family in the plantation district of Edge-field, South Carolina, on August 11, 1847. He served with a murderous paramilitary unit, agitated for agricultural reform, and was elected to two terms as South Carolina ’s ...
Jun 28, 2016 · Tillman’s most important contribution to South Carolina’s political life came with the Constitutional Convention of 1895. Tillman argued that only a revision of the laws regarding electoral qualification could safeguard the state from a potential black Republican resurgence.
Jun 17, 2020 · SOUTH CAROLINA. The shocking history of Ben Tillman and how South Carolina still honors the violent racist. Carol Motsinger. Greenville News. 0:03. 1:26. COLUMBIA – The marchers stood where...
