James H. Tillman
James Hammond Tillman (June 27, 1869 – April 1, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician from South Carolina.
Born in Edgefield County, he received his education in the Curryton Academy; the Virginia Military Institute; the Emerson Institute of Washington, D.C., and the Georgetown University Law School. Between 1901 and 1903 he was Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. He was the son of U.S. Representative George D. Tillman and nephew of Senator Benjamin Tillman.
James H. Tillman | |
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| 64th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina | |
| In office January 15, 1901 – January 20, 1903 | |
| Governor | Miles Benjamin McSweeney |
| Preceded by | Robert B. Scarborough |
| Succeeded by | John Sloan |
In 1903 he fatally shot journalist Narciso Gener Gonzales, co-founder of Columbia newspaper The State, and was acquitted of murder in a trial that gained national coverage. It is believed that had he not murdered Gonzales, Tillman would have led the political movement which Coleman Livingston Blease inherited from him.
References
Further reading
- Jones, Lewis P. (1973). Stormy Petrel: N. G. Gonzales and His State. Columbia, S.C.: USC Press.
- Underwood, James Lowell (2013). Deadly Censorship: Murder, Honor, and Freedom of the Press. Columbia, South Carolina: University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 9781611173000.
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