Thomas S. McMillan

Thomas S. McMillan

Thomas Sanders McMillan (born November 27, 1888 in Ulmer , Allendale County , South Carolina , †  September 29, 1939 in Charleston , South Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1939 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas McMillan attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1907 the Orangeburg Collegiate Institute . Between 1907 and 1908 he taught himself as a teacher. McMillan was also a professional baseball player and coach at the time. After studying law at the University of South Carolina at Columbia and being admitted to the bar in 1913, he began practicing his new profession in Charleston. He also started working in agriculture.

Politically, McMillan was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1917 and 1924 he was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives . There he has been President of the House for the past few years. In 1924 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of South Carolina , where he succeeded W. Turner Logan on March 4, 1925 . After he was confirmed in the following seven elections, he could remain in Congress until his death in September 1939 . During this time he experienced first the flourishing upswing of the 1920s, then the world economic crisis . Between 1933 and 1939, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed in Congress under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified. It concerned the determination of the terms of office of the Congress and the President as well as the repeal of the 18th amendment to the constitution from 1919, through which the alcohol ban had been introduced nationwide.

Between 1937 and 1939 Thomas McMillan was a member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union ; in 1939 he took part in their conference in Oslo as an American delegate . He died on November 29, 1939 in Charleston and was buried there. His mandate fell after a by-election to his widow Clara , who ended his last current term in Congress until January 3, 1941.

Web links

• Thomas S. McMillan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas S. McMillan in the database of Find a Grave (English)