Opposed to desegregation (the issue had lost him his chance to run as Vice President), he became governor of South Carolina, serving from 1951 to 1955, and eventually switched allegiances to the Republican Party.
Today, a building housing international programs is named for Byrnes at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.
James I, king of England, 1566-1625, king of England (1603-25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567-1625).
James II, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, 1633-1701, king of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1685-88); second son of Charles I, brother and successor of Charles...
James III, king of Scotland, 1452-88, king of Scotland (1460-88), son and successor of James II.
JamesByrnes was the most politically significant South Carolinian of the twentieth century a man nearly as influential in national politics as John C. Calhoun had been in the nineteenth century.
Byrnes was a man of honor and honesty, but one imbued with an older conception of morality and practice.
Byrnes' efforts led to a much-needed improvement of fl education in South Carolina, but his aim was to prevent the one real improvement needed in education in the state.
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