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Senate Years of Service: 1908-1909 Party: Democrat
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Library of Congress
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GARY, Frank Boyd, a Senator from South Carolina; born in Cokesbury, Abbeville County, S.C., March
9, 1860; attended the Cokesbury Conference School and Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.;
studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Abbeville, S.C., in 1881; member, State
house of representatives 1890-1900, serving as speaker 1895-1900; delegate to the State
constitutional convention in 1895; member, State house of representatives 1906; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Asbury C. Latimer
and served from March 6, 1908, to March 3, 1909; was not a candidate for reelection in 1908;
member, State house of representatives 1910; elected judge of the eighth judicial circuit in 1912 and
served until his death in Charleston, S.C., December 7, 1922; interment in Long Cane Cemetery,
Abbeville, S.C.
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