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Senate Years of Service: 1941-1941 Party: Democrat
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MLK Library
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PEACE, Roger Craft, a Senator from South Carolina; born in Greenville, Greenville County, S.C., May
19, 1899; attended the public schools and graduated from Furman University, Greenville, S.C., in
1919; newspaper reporter, sports editor, editor, business manager, and publisher in Greenville, S.C.;
during the First World War served as an instructor in the United States Army at Camp Perry in 1918;
colonel on the Governors staff 1930-1934; trustee of Furman University 1938-1948; appointed on
August 5, 1941, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Alva M. Lumpkin, who had been appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James F.
Byrnes, and served from August 5, 1941, until November 4, 1941; was not a candidate for election to
the vacancy; resumed his career of writing, publishing, and civic activities; at the time of his death was
chairman of Multimedia, Inc.; died in Greenville, S.C., August 20, 1968; interment in Springwood
Cemetery.
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