Nathaniel Barksdale Dial | |
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 Nathaniel B. Dial | |
| United States Senator fromSouth Carolina | |
| In office March 4, 1919 – March 3, 1925 | |
| Preceded by | William P. Pollock |
| Succeeded by | Coleman L. Blease |
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| Born | (1862-04-24)April 24, 1862 Laurens, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | December 11, 1940(1940-12-11) (aged 78) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Resting place | Laurens City Cemetery |
| Party | Democratic |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Nathaniel Barksdale Dial (April 24, 1862 – December 11, 1940) was aUnited States senator fromSouth Carolina from 1919 to 1925.
Born nearLaurens, he attended the common schools,Richmond College (Virginia) andVanderbilt University. He studied law at theUniversity of Virginia atCharlottesville, was admitted to the bar in 1883, and commenced practice in Laurens. He was mayor of Laurens from 1887 to 1891 and again in 1895; he declined the office ofconsul toZurich,Switzerland, tendered by PresidentGrover Cleveland in 1893. Dial engaged in banking and in various manufacturing enterprises, and was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1912; he was, however, elected in 1918 as aDemocrat to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1919, to March 4, 1925; he was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924 and in 1925 was a member of the commission to report on the use of the nitrate plant atMuscle Shoals, Alabama. He resumed the practice of law in South Carolina andWashington, D.C., and also his former manufacturing enterprises in South Carolina; Dial died in Washington, D.C., in 1940; and is interred at the Laurens City Cemetery.
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| Preceded by | Democratic nominee forU.S. Senator fromSouth Carolina (Class 2) 1918 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | U.S. senator (Class 2) from South Carolina 1919–1925 Served alongside:Ellison D. Smith | Succeeded by |
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