James F. Byrnes
James Francis Byrnes was an American politician from the state of South Carolina. During his career, Byrnes served as a U.S. Representative , a U.S. Senator , a Justice of the Supreme Court , Secretary of State , and 104th governor of South Carolina . He is one of very few politicians to serve in all three branches of the American federal government while also being active in state government. He was a confidant of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and was one of the most powerful men in American domestic and foreign policy in the mid1940s. Historian George E. Mowry called Byrnes, the most influential southern member of Congress between John Calhoun and Lyndon Johnson.
James Francis Jimmy Byrnes was born at 538 King St. in Charleston, South Carolina and reared in Charleston, South Carolina. Byrness father, James Francis Byrnes, died shortly after Byrnes was born. His mother, Elizabeth McSweeney Byrnes, was an IrishAmerican dressmaker. At the age of fourteen, he left St. Patricks Catholic School to work in a law office, and became a court stenographer. Notably, he transcribed the murder trial of thenLieutenant Governor of South Carolina, James H. Tillman, nephew of Benjamin Tillman for the killing of Narciso Gener Gonzales, the editor of The State . In 1906, he married the former Maude Perkins Busch of Aiken, South Carolina. Though they had no children, he was the godparent of James Christopher Connor. Byrnes then converted from the Catholic Church to Episcopalianism.
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