Benjamin Tillman
American politician (1847-1918) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 70
Benjamin Ryan Tillman was an American Democratic Party politician who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918.
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Tillman in 1892
Edgefield monument to the governors and lieutenant governors from there, including Tillman and his second lieutenant governor, Washington H. Timmerman. Seen in 2020.
The side of Tillman's grave marker mentions his role in the foundings of Clemson and Winthrop. Seen in 2020.
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A white supremacist who opposed civil rights for black Americans, Tillman led a paramilitary group of Red Shirts during South Carolina's violent 1876 election. On the floor of the U.S. Senate, he defended lynching, and frequently ridiculed black Americans in his speeches, boasting of having helped kill them during that campaign.
