Roger C. Peace

Roger C. Peace

Roger Craft Peace (born May 19, 1899 in Greenville , South Carolina , †  August 20, 1968 ibid) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of South Carolina in the US Senate .

Roger Peace attended public schools and then Furman University in his birthplace, where he graduated in 1919. In the meantime, he had previously served in the US Army and trained recruits in a training camp in Ohio in the late phase of the First World War . As a result, he first worked as a newspaper reporter and sports reporter in Greenville; later he worked as managing director and publisher. From 1930 to 1934 he was a member of the staff of the Governor of South Carolina, Ibra Charles Blackwood ; between 1938 and 1948 he was a curator at Furman University.

After the death of US Senator Alva M. Lumpkin on August 1, 1941, Roger Peace was appointed his successor four days later. Lumpkin himself had only moved up to Congress on July 22nd of the same year for the resigned James F. Byrnes . Peace held the mandate until November 4, 1941; he did not run for the necessary by-election. He retired from politics and then went back to journalism; Until his death he was also chairman of Multimedia, Inc.

Web links

• Roger C. Peace in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Roger C. Peace in the database of Find a Grave (English)