Strom Thurmond legal series, 1900-1955, bulk 1930-1946.

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Strom Thurmond legal series, 1900-1955, bulk 1930-1946.

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This series contains the records of Thurmond's legal practice and correspondence relating to his activities as Edgefield Town Attorney (1932-1938) and judge of the Eleventh Circuit (1938-1941). The material includes law case files and correspondence (annulments, divorces, estates, foreclosures, loans, mortgages, disability claims, pardons, and paroles, wrongful-death and personal injury suits, wills, libel, murder and other criminal cases), a record book that acts as a partial index to the cases, some political correspondence (on topics such as vote fraud in Charleston in 1938, the 1938 gubernatorial campaign, Lanneau Lide's race for the Twelfth Circuit judgeship), legal opinions and transmittal letters. There is extensive correspondence betwwen Thurmond and his partner J. Fred Buzhardt Sr. (1935-1938), and some personal notes from his father, John William Thurmond, when they were in practice together (1930-1934). Other topics include lynching, the Ku Klux Klan and federal relief efforts in Edgefield during the Great Depression.

8.5 cubic ft.

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

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