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Senate Years of Service: 1941-1954 Party: Democrat
MAYBANK, Burnet Rhett, a Senator from South Carolina; born in Charleston, S.C., March 7,
1899; attended the public schools; graduated from Porter Military Academy,
Charleston, S.C., and from the College of Charleston, South Carolina; served in
the Navy during the First World War; engaged in the cotton export business
1920-1938; alderman of Charleston, S.C., 1927-1931; mayor of Charleston
1931-1938; member of the South Carolina State Advisory Board of the Federal
Administration of Public Works 1933-1934; chairman of the South Carolina Public
Service Authority 1934-1939; member of the Board of Bank Control 1933-1934;
Governor of South Carolina 1939-1941; elected on September 30, 1941, as a
Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of James F. Byrnes; reelected in 1942 and 1948 and served from
November 5, 1941, until his death; chairman, Committee on Banking and Currency
(Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on
Defense Production (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses); died at his
summer home in Flat Rock, N.C., September 1, 1954; interment in Magnolia
Cemetery, Charleston, S.C.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography; Cann, Marvin.
Burnet Rhett Maybank and the New Deal in South Carolina, 1931-1941. Ph.D.
dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1967; U.S. Congress.
Memorial Addresses. 83rd Cong., 2nd sess., 1954. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1955.
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