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Thomas S. McMillan | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromSouth Carolina's1st district | |
| In office March 4, 1925 - September 29, 1939 | |
| Preceded by | W. Turner Logan |
| Succeeded by | Clara Gooding McMillan |
| 42nd Speaker of theSouth Carolina House of Representatives | |
| In office January 9, 1923 – March 22, 1924 | |
| Governor | Wilson Godfrey Harvey Thomas Gordon McLeod |
| Preceded by | Thomas Perrin Cothran |
| Succeeded by | Edgar Allen Brown |
| Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives fromCharleston County | |
| In office January 9, 1917 – March 22, 1924 | |
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| Born | (1888-11-27)November 27, 1888 Ulmer, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | September 29, 1939(1939-09-29) (aged 50) |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Clara Gooding McMillan |
| Profession | baseball player,lawyer |
Thomas Sanders McMillan (November 27, 1888 – September 29, 1939) was a lawyer and aUnited States representative fromSouth Carolina.
Born in the town ofUlmer inAllendale County, McMillan received his early childhood education at the schools in Ulmer. He graduated from the Orangeburg Collegiate Institute in 1907 and taught school for the next two years inPerry. McMillan then enrolled at theUniversity of South Carolina and graduated in 1912. In 1913, he completed the law course at the university and was admitted to the bar the same year. He moved toCharleston where he began the practice of law on January 1, 1915, with James B. Heyward, as well as pursuing his agricultural interests.
McMillan served in theSouth Carolina House of Representatives from 1917 to 1924 and he served asspeaker from 1923 to 1924. In addition, he was the head baseball coach atThe Citadel from 1916 to 1919; for five years before law school, he had played professional minor league baseball in theSouth Atlantic League, playing his final two seasons with theCharleston Sea Gulls.
While serving in the United States Congress, McMillan maintained a house in Charleston, South Carolina at 171 Moultrie St. Today, the house is a contributing structure to theHampton Park Terrace National Register Historic District and is used as a faculty house for the Citadel.
He was elected to theUnited States House of Representatives to represent the1st congressional district in 1924 for theSixty-ninth Congress. He was re-elected six more times and while in Congress was a member of the executive committee of theInter-Parliamentary Union from 1937 to 1939. McMillan died in Charleston and was interred in Magnolia Cemetery.
Yates Snowden,History of South Carolina (1920).
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