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DORN: Of the People, A Political Way of Life
by William Jennings Bryan Dorn and Scott Derks |
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1988. Sandlapper Publishing and Bruccoli Clark Laymen.
Hardcover, $9.95
ISBN 0-87844-082-8
ISBN 13:
978-0-87844-032-2
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A first-hand account of Congressman Dorn’s encounters with major political figures such as Presidents Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon.
William Jennings Bryan Dorn (1916—2005)
William Jennings Bryan Dorn,
a
Representative from South Carolina; born near Greenwood,
Greenwood County, S.C., April 14, 1916; attended the public
schools; engaged in agricultural pursuits; served in the
State house of representatives in 1939 and 1940; member of
the State senate in 1941 and 1942; enlisted as a private in
the Army Air Forces and served from June 20, 1942, until
discharged as a corporal on October 12, 1945, nineteen
months of which were in the European Theater; elected as a
Democrat to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-January
3, 1949); was not a candidate for renomination in 1948, but
was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination
for United States Senator; resumed agricultural pursuits;
elected to the Eighty-second Congress; reelected to the
eleven succeeding Congresses and served from January 3,
1951, until his resignation December 31, 1974; chairman,
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs (Ninety-third Congress); was
not a candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth
Congress; was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor;
chairman, South Carolina Democratic party, 1980-1984; died
on August 13, 2005, in Greenwood, S.C.
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