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Pages of History: The Progressive Era | Carolina Stories
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Major James Calvin Hemphill, from Abbeville, succeeded Francis Dawson. At first, The News And Courier was impressed by Benjamin Ryan Tillman’s lambasting of “bourbon do-nothings” in power, but Tillman...