U.S. Senator, 1941-1954, and governor of S.C., 1939-1941; Democrat; born in Charleston, S.C.; served in U.S. Navy during World War I; mayor of Charleston, S.C., 1931-38; married, in 1923, to Elizabeth de Rossett Myers (d. 1947) and, in 1948, to Mary Randolph Pelzer Cecil; father of Burnet Rhett Maybank (b.1924).
Burnet R. Maybank was elected to the United States Senate in 1941 to fill the seat that had been vacated by James F. Byrnes. He had previously been a Charleston City Councilman, Mayor of Charleston, and Governor of South Carolina. Maybank was a graduate of the College of Charleston. This collection reflects Maybank's Senate service on the Committee of Banking and Currency; Committee of Appropriations; and the Sub-Committee for Military Appropriations.
Burnet R. Maybank was elected to the United States Senate in 1941 to fill the seat that had been vacated by James F. Byrnes. He had previously been a Charleston City Councilman, Mayor of Charleston, and Governor of South Carolina. Maybank was a graduate of the College of Charleston. This collection reflects Maybank's Senate service on the Committee of Banking and Currency, Committee of Appropriations, and the Sub-Committee for Military Appropriations.