| LC control no. | n 80167019 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972 |
| Variant(s) | Byrnes, James Francis, 1879-1972 |
| Birth date | 18820502 |
| Death date | 19720409 |
| Place of birth | Charleston, S.C. |
| Place of death | Columbia, S.C. |
| Affiliation | United States. Congress. House United States. Congress. Senate United States. Supreme Court United States. Office of Economic Stabilization United States. Office of War Mobilization United States. Department of State South Carolina. Office of the Governor |
| Profession or occupation | Legislators--United States |
| Found in | U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Mines and Mining. Report on the Colorado strike investigation ... 1915. James F. Byrnes and the origins of the cold war, c1982: t.p. (James F. Byrnes) Info. from ScCF, Apr. 15, 1998 (Although the dates given are always 1879-1972, scholars now concede that he lied about his age by making himself older to qualify for his first important job; actually born May 2, 1882; three sources cited) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, July 19, 2013 (Byrnes, James Francis (1882-1972); a Representative and a Senator from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., May 2, 1882; attended the public schools; official court reporter for the second circuit of South Carolina, 1900-1908; editor of the Journal and Review, Aiken, S.C., 1903-1907; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1903 and commenced practice in Aiken, S.C.; solicitor for the second circuit of South Carolina, 1908-1910; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress, reelected to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1925); was not a candidate for renomination in 1924, but was an unsuccessful candidate for United States Senator; resumed the practice of law in Spartanburg, S.C.; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate on November 4, 1930; reelected in 1936 and served from March 4, 1931, until his resignation on July 8, 1941, having been appointed to the Supreme Court; chairman, Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense (Seventy-third through Seventy-seventh Congresses); Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from July 1941 until his resignation on October 3, 1942, to head the wartime Office of Economic Stabilization until May 1943; director of the Office of War Mobilization, May 1943 until his resignation in April 1945; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President Harry Truman 1945-1947; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; Governor of South Carolina, 1951-1955; retired and resided in Columbia, S.C., where he died April 9, 1972) |
| Associated language | eng |
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