Strom Thurmond John William Thurmond series, 1894-1934.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Strom Thurmond John William Thurmond series, 1894-1934.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36268494

John William Thurmond, father of Strom Thurmond, born May 1, 1862, at Morgana in Edgefield County. May have attended Currytown Academy and South Carolina College. Married Eleanor Gertrude Strom in 1898; six children. Teacher and farmer. Admitted to bar, 1888; practiced law in Edgefield until 1934; partnership with Carroll Johnson Ramage, 1904-1924, William Lowndes Daniel, 1926-1931, and his son Strom Thurmond, 1930-1934. Edgefield County attorney 1888-1932 ; Edgefield County supervisor of registration 1893-1934 . Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1894-1896. Solicitor, Fifth Judicial Circuit, 1896-1904. Unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Congress, 1902. President South Carolina Democratic State Convention, 1906. U.S. District Attorney, Western District of South Carolina, 1915-1921. Served as special judge and special Associate Justice, South Carolina Supreme Court, Author of Thurmond's Key Cases, 1930, Attorney, South Carolina Power Company and Savannah River Electric Company, Directory, Farmer's Bank of Edgefield. Died June 17, 1934. This series contains the records of John William Thurmond's legal career, material on the book Thurmond's Key Cases and agricultural ledgers recording tenant transactions such as rent payments; charges for food, household and farm supplies; and crop yields. The legal records are divided into cases and legal correspondence. The cases (1913-1934) deal primarily with oil, railroad, lumber, insurance, coal and granite companies and the South Carolina Highway Department and also include accident, bankruptcy, criminal (such as murder) cases, divorce, estates, foreclosures, loans and wills. There is a rough alphabetical index for cases from 1930-1934, maintained by John William Thurmond. The legal correspondence not only contains letters concerning cases (including fragments of cases not listed in the index) and other legal subjects, such as alimony, child custody, mortgages, naturalization, pardons and paroles; it also includes political correspondence, some items on genealogy and the Thurmond family and letters relating to supplying Thurmond's tenant farmers.

7.65 cubic ft.

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7378529

Clemson University Libraries, Robert Muldrow Cooper Library

Related Entities

There are 16 Entities related to this resource.

South Carolina. Dept. of Highways and Public Transportation

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hr4rb5 (corporateBody)

Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66v1b4m (person)

James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) was an American military officer and politician who served for 48 years as a United States Senator from South Carolina. He ran for president in 1948 as the Dixiecrat candidate on a States' rights platform supporting racial segregation. He received 2.4% of the popular vote and 39 electoral votes, failing to defeat Harry Truman. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Southern De...

Mays, Calhoun, 1884-1967.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qz3bkw (person)

Brown, Edgar A. (Edgar Allan), 1888-1975

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sb4h1k (person)

South Carolina State Representative, 1921-1926; South Carolina State Senator, 1928-1972, President Pro Tempore and chairman Senate Finance Committee, 1942-1972. Clemson University trustee, 1934-1975. From the description of Edgar Brown papers. 1911-1975 : 1950-1972. (Clemson University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23745990 Member, South Carolina General Assembly, serving Barnwell County as Representative (1921-1928) and Senator (1929-1972); President Pro Tempore of Senate...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n40kzp (person)

Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Blease, Eugene S., 1877-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zk6htm (person)

Thurman family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vr20wk (family)

Ramage, C. J. (Carroll Johnson), 1874-1937

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rb85nq (person)

Smith, Ellison DuRant, 1866-1944

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61j99zb (person)

Daniel, John Mobley, 1883-1951

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tq681j (person)

Attorney general of South Carolina, 1925-1951. From the description of John Mobley Daniel papers, 1925-1950. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 28413838 ...

Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j67g26 (person)

James F. Byrnes was born on May 2, 1882, in Charleston, South Carolina, to Elizabeth McSweeney and James Byrnes. On May 2, 1906, he married Maude Busch, who was born in Aiken, SC, on October 22, 1883. Byrnes was elected Court Solicitor of the Second District in 1908; U.S. Congressman from 1911-1925; U.S. Senator from 1931-1941. He was appointed to serve as a Justice of U.S. Supreme Court 1941-1942. He also served as Director of the Office of Economic Stabilization, 1942; Director of the Office o...

Greneker, T. B. (Thomas Benjamin)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64t7km3 (person)

Timmerman, George Bell, 1881-1966

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gb35d6 (person)

Thurmond, John William, 1862-1934

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dz19qq (person)

Edgefield County attorney and South Carolina representative; father of United States senator Strom Thurmond. From the description of Papers, 1884-1934. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 35032788 ...

McLeod, Thomas G. (Thomas Gordon), 1868-1932

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65m76wc (person)

Two term governor of S.C., 1923-1927; b. Lynchburg, S.C., son of William James and Amanda (Rogers) McLeod; married Elizabeth Alford, 1902. From the description of Thomas G. McLeod papers, 1924-1926. (University of South Carolina). WorldCat record id: 49807565 Two-term governor of South Carolina; b. 17 Dec. 1868, Lynchburg, S.C.; son of William James and Amanda Rogers McLeod; graduate of Wofford College, 1892; admitted to S.C. Bar, 1896; S.C. House of Representatives, 1900-19...

Charles, W. K.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c54mg6 (person)