Benjamin Tillman was born in 1847 in Edgefield, South Carolina. He was a lawyer and politician who served as the governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894 and as a United States senator from South Carolina from 1895 to 1918. He was a member of the Democratic Party and a supporter of white supremacy.
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