Nathaniel B. Dial

Nathaniel B. Dial

Nathaniel Barksdale Dial (born April 24, 1862 in Laurens , Laurens County , South Carolina , †  December 11, 1940 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of South Carolina in the US Senate .

Nathaniel Dial attended public schools in his home country, followed by Richmond College in Virginia and Vanderbilt University in Nashville . He then studied law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville , whereupon he was admitted to the bar in 1883 and began to practice in Laurens. From 1887 to 1891 he was mayor of his hometown; In 1895 he held this office again.

When US President Grover Cleveland offered him the office of American consul in Zurich in 1893 , Dial refused. Instead, he worked in the banking industry and as a partner in several manufacturing companies. In 1912 he applied for a seat in the US Senate for the first time, but remained unsuccessful. Six years later he won the election to Senator, whereupon he entered Congress on March 4, 1919 . In Washington he spent a six-year term in office; however, he was not put up for re-election by his party, which instead nominated Coleman Livingston Blease . Dial's time in the Senate thus ended on March 3, 1925.

In the same year he was a member of a commission that the benefits of a nitrate plant in Muscle Shoals ( Alabama should investigate). Then Dial worked again as a lawyer in South Carolina and Washington; he went back to his previous business activities until he died in 1940 in the federal capital.

Web links

• Nathaniel B. Dial in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Nathaniel B. Dial in the database of Find a Grave (English)