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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaBLEASE, Coleman Livingston
(1868—1942)
Senate Years of Service:
1925-1931
Party:
Democrat
BLEASE, Coleman Livingston, a Senator from South Carolina; born near Newberry, Newberry County, S.C., October 8, 1868; attended the common schools; graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1889; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Newberry, S.C.; member, State house of representatives 1890-1894, 1899, and 1900, serving as speaker pro tempore 1892-1894; mayor of Helena, S.C., in 1897; city attorney of Newberry in 1901 and 1902; member, State senate 1905-1909, serving as president pro tempore in 1906 and 1907; mayor of Newberry in 1910; Governor of South Carolina 1911-1915; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1925, to March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1934 and 1938; elected a member of the State unemployment compensation commission for a four-year term beginning in 1941; died in Columbia, S.C., January 19, 1942; interment in Rosemont Cemetery, Newberry, S.C.
Bibliography
American National Biography
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48 (1978): 53-68.
Burnside, Ronald Dantan. “The Governorship of Coleman Livingston Blease of South Carolina, 1911-1915.” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1963.
Hollis, Daniel W. “Cole Blease: The Years Between the Governorship and the Senate, 1915-1924.” South Carolina Historical Magazine
80 (January 1979): 1-17.
___. “Cole L. Blease and the Senatorial Campaign of 1924.” Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association
(1978): 53-68.
McCauley, M.L. “Cole Blease and the Senatorial Campaign of 1918: A Study in Ambivalent Apology.” In The Oratory of Southern Demagogues
, edited by Cal M. Logue and Howard Dorgan, pp. 111-29. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981.
Miller, Anthony Barry. “Coleman Livingston Blease.” Master’s thesis, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1971.
Simon, Bryant. “The Appeal of Cole Blease of South Carolina: Race, Class, and Sex in the New South.” Journal of Southern History
62 (February 1996): 57-86.
___. A Fabric of Defeat: The Politics of South Carolina Millhands, 1910-1948
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.
Stone, Clarence N. “Bleaseism and the 1912 Election in South Carolina.” North Carolina Historical Review
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Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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