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 Later, Republican
Spouse(s)	Maude Perkins Busch
Religion	Episcopalian

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 which Roosevelt appointed him to in order to run for governor on a states-rights campaign.