Coleman Livingston Blease (October 8, 1868 - January 19, 1942) was a politician from South Carolina known for his populist appeals and racism. He served as a state legislator, as governor of South Carolina, and as a U.S. Senator. State nickname: Palmetto State Other U.S. States Capital Columbia Largest city Columbia Governor Mark Sanford (R) Official languages English Area 82,965 km² (40th)  - Land 78,051 km²  - Water 4,915 km² (6%) Population (2000)  - Population {{{2000Pop}}} (26th)  - Density 51. ...

Early Life and Career

Coleman Livingston Blease was born near the town of Newberry, South Carolina, on October 8, 1868, the year that South Carolina's new Reconstruction constiution was adopted and African Americans began participating in public life. Blease's attitudes about race were almost certainly shaped by the violent confrontations of this period. Blease was educated at Newberry College, the University of South Carolina, and Georgetown University, where he graduated from the law department in 1889. Blease returned to Newberry to practice law and enter politics. He began his political career in the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1890 as a protege of Benjamin Ryan Tillman. But whereas Tillman drew his support from South Carolina's poor white farmers and never quite trusted the growing numbers of white textile mill workers, Blease came to see that these workers lacked a political voice. His own rise to power, as he moved from the South Carolina House of Representatives to the South Carolina Senate in 1900, was built on the support of mill workers, an increasingly important segment of the electorate in South Carolina in this period. Newberry is the name of a number of places in the United States of America: Newberry, Michigan Newberry, South Carolina Newberry College In addition, there are places named Newbury, as well as the Newbery Medal. ... Newberry College Newberry College is a liberal-arts college located on an eighty acre (324,000 m²) campus in Newberry, South Carolina. ... The University of South Carolina (also known as USC, South Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, coeducational, research university. ... Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 _ July 3, 1918) was an American politician who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894 and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death. ...

Blease as Governor

Blease was elected governor in 1910 and re-elected in 1912. 1910 in topic: Arts Architecture- Art- Film- Literature- Music- Television Science and technology Aviation- Rail transport- Radio- Science Other topics Australia- Canada- Ireland- South Africa- Sport Births- Deaths Lists of leaders: State leaders - Religious leaders 1910 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1912 is a leap year starting on Monday. ...

Blease as Senator

In 1924, Blease defeated James Francis Byrnes in the Democratic primary and was elected to the U.S. Senate. His campaign showed that he was the same politician he had always been and foreshadowed his style as Senator. Blease's defeat of Byrnes was widely credited to a rumor campaign that Byrnes, who was raised a Roman Catholic in Charleston, had not really left that faith when he entered politics. Such an assertion in an overwhelmingly Protestant state in the years when the Ku Klux Klan was at the height of its power ruined Byrnes's hopes that year, though it was Byrnes who defeated Blease in his 1930 run for re-election.

External Links

• www.sciway.net summary [1]

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress [2]

References

Ronald Dantan Burnside (1963) "The Governorship of Coleman Livingston Blease of South Carolina, 1911-1915", Indiana University. {{{ID}}}

Daniel W. Hollis (1979). "Cole Blease: The Years Between the Governorship and the Senate, 1915-1924". South Carolina Historical Magazine 80: 1-17 –.

Daniel W. Hollis (1978). "Cole L. Blease and the Senatorial Campaign of 1924". Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association {{{Volume}}}: 53-68 –.

Anthony Barry Miller (1971) "Coleman Livingston Blease", University of North Carolina, Greensboro. {{{ID}}}

Bryant Simon (1996). "The Appeal of Cole Blease of South Carolina: Race, Class, and Sex in the New South". Journal of Southern History 62: 57-86 –.

Bryant Simon (1998) A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948, University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-807847-04-6

Clarence N. Stone (1963). "Bleaseism and the 1912 Election in South Carolina". North Carolina Historical Review 40: 54-74. –.