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Edwards, James B., 1927-2014

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Personal name headingEdwards, James B., 1927-2014
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Variant(s)Edwards, James Burrows, 1927-2014
See alsoSouth Carolina. Governor (1975-1979 : Edwards)
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Birth date1927-06-24
Death date2014-12-26
Place of birthHawthorne (Alachua County, Fla.)
Place of deathMount Pleasant (S.C.)
AffiliationMedical University of South Carolina
United States. Department of Energy
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Profession or occupationGovernors Cabinet officers College presidents Oral surgeons
Found inS.C. Govr., 1975- (Edwards) State (condition) ... 1978 (xx-ref.) t.p. (James B. Edwards, Governor, State of South Carolina)
S.C. leg. man., 1978: (Edwards, James Burrows; b. 6/24/27)
His The southeast's oldest medical school, 1986: t.p. (James B. Edwards, D.M.D., pres., the Medical Univ. of S.C., Charleston, S.C.)
WW in the South & the Southeast, 1986-87 (Edwards, James Burrows; univ. pres., oral surgeon; pres., Med. U. S.C., 1982-; gov. State of S.C., 1975-78)
American leaders 1789-1994, c1994: p. 459 (Edwards, James Burrows, gov. of S.C., Jan. 21, 1975-Jan. 10, 1979)
New York times (online), viewed Dec. 29, 2014 (in obituary published Dec. 26: James B. Edwards; b. James Burrows Edwards, June 24, 1927, Hawthorne, Fla.; grew up in Mount Pleasant, near Charleston [S.C.]; d. Friday [Dec. 26, 2014], Mount Pleasant, aged 87; dentist turned Republican politician whose victory in the 1974 race for governor of South Carolina helped move the Statehouse away from longstanding Democratic control, and who went on to serve as President Ronald Reagan's first energy secretary)
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