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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; Dictionary of American Biography; Burnside,
Ronald D. “The Governorship of Coleman Livingston Blease of
S.C.” Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University, 1963; Hollis,
Daniel W. “Cole Blease and the Senatorial Campaign of 1924.”
Proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association 48 (1978):
53-68.
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