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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Burnet R. Maybank |
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Charleston, South Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
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March 07, 1899 |
| Died |
September 01, 1954
(55 years) |
| Contributor | U Ole Polecat |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | attended the public schools; graduated from Porter Military Academy, Charleston, S.C., and from the College of Charleston, South Carolina; served in the Navy during the First World War; engaged in the cotton export business 1920-1938; alderman of Charleston, S.C., 1927-1931; mayor of Charleston 1931-1938; member of the South Carolina State Advisory Board of the Federal Administration of Public Works 1933-1934; chairman of the South Carolina Public Service Authority 1934-1939; member of the Board of Bank Control 1933-1934; Governor of South Carolina 1939-1941; was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1941 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James F. Byrnes; reelected in 1942 and again in 1948, and served from November 5, 1941, until his death; chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on Defense Production (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses); died at his summer home in Flat Rock, N.C., September 1, 1954; interment in Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
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