Difference between revisions of "James Byrnes"

James Byrnes
Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; From: July 8, 1941 – October 3, 1942
Nominator	Franklin Roosevelt
Predecessor	James McReynolds
Successor	Wiley Blount Rutledge
104th Governor of South Carolina; From: January 16, 1951 – January 18, 1955
Predecessor	Strom Thurmond
Successor	George Bell Timmerman, Jr.
49th United States Secretary of State; From: July 3, 1945 – January 21, 1947
President	Harry Truman
Predecessor	Edward Stettinius, Jr.
Successor	George Marshall
U.S. Senator from South Carolina; From: April 5, 1931 – July 8, 1941
Predecessor	Coleman L. Blease
Successor	Alva M. Lumpkin
Former U.S. Representative from South Carolina's 2nd Congressional District; From: March 4, 1911 – March 4, 1925
Predecessor	James O'H. Patterson
Successor	Butler Hare
Information;
Party	Democrat; ;
Spouse(s)	Maude Perkins Busch;
Religion	Episcopalian

Revision as of 16:44, August 30, 2020

James Byrnes was a politician from South Carolina. During his career he served at every branch of the federal government - the executive branch (as Secretary of State), the legislative branch (in both houses of Congress) and the judicial branch as a Supreme Court Associate Justice.

Brynes was a confidant of Franklin Roosevelt; he resigned from the Court to become director of the Office of War Mobilization in 1943 and later Secretary of State under President Truman. Byrnes was involved in the decision to drop a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima.

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