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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaGeorge Dionysius TILLMAN
(1826-1902)
TILLMAN, George Dionysius,
(brother of Benjamin Ryan Tillman), a Representative from South
Carolina; born near Curryton, Edgefield County, S.C., August 21,
1826; pursued an academic course in Penfield, Ga., and in
Greenwood, S.C.; attended Harvard University, but did not graduate;
studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice
in Edgefield, S.C.; member of the State house of representatives,
1854-1855 and 1864; enlisted during the Civil War and served in the
Third Regiment of South Carolina State troops in 1862; shortly
after its disbandment entered the Second Regiment of South Carolina
Artillery, in which he served until the close of the war; again a
member of the State house of representatives in 1864; member of the
State constitutional convention in 1865, held under the
reconstruction proclamation of President Johnson; served in the
State senate in 1865; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1876
to the Forty-fifth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); presented
credentials as a Member-elect to the Forty-seventh Congress and
served from March 4, 1881, to June 19, 1882, when he was succeeded
by Robert Smalls, who contested the election; elected to the
Forty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1883-March 3, 1893); chairman, Committee on Patents (Fifty-second
Congress); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1892; engaged
in agricultural pursuits and also as a publicist; member of the
State constitutional convention in 1895; unsuccessful candidate for
election as Governor of South Carolina in 1898; died in Clarks
Hill, McCormick County, S.C., February 2, 1902; interment in the
Bethlehem Baptist Church Community Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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