Word: maybank
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last week no write-in candidate had ever been elected to the U.S. Congress. Last week's write-in winner: J. (for James) Strom Thurmond, 51, whom South Carolina sent to the Senate seat of the late Burnet R. Maybank...
After the death of Senator Burnet Maybank (TIME, Sept. 13), Brown, a state senator who controls the state Democratic executive committee, talked the committee into nominating him as a replacement. Conservative Democrats and almost all the state's daily newspapers wanted a primary. Infuriated by the coup, they united behind J. Strom Thurmond, a former governor and Dixiecrat presidential candidate in 1948, as a write-in candidate. A write-in campaign has powerful obstacles to overcome, but loquacious Harry Vaughan certainly helped...
Died. Burnet Rhett Maybank, 55, genial, aristocratic onetime (1939-41) governor of South Carolina, longtime (1941-54) U.S. Senator; of a heart ailment; in Flat Rock, N.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...Maybank was not the last of the Southern aristocrats in the Senate. Virginia's Harry Byrd is still very much alive. And as Burnet Rhett Maybank was buried in Charleston's Magnolia Cemetery last week, South Carolinians could remember how deep the stream of family runs in the low country. At the graveside was Burnet Rhett Maybank Jr., 30, a rising young member of the state legislature...
...Senator Maybank's death threw South Carolina Democrats into turmoil. Governor James Byrnes wanted a special primary called. But old (66) State Senator Edgar A. Brown, the most powerful man in party circles-and a pine hill man-had other ideas. On the way to Magnolia Cemetery Brown's Cadillac turned out of the funeral cortege, and he hurried to Columbia, where, at an emergency meeting that day, the state Democratic executive committee, on Brown's insistence, decided against the primary plan. Then it handed the party's nomination to Brown...