| Paul G. McCorkle | |
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| Member of the U.S.HouseofRepresentatives from South Carolina's 5th district | |
| In office February 21, 1917 –March 3, 1917 | |
| Preceded by | David E. Finley |
| Succeeded by | William F. Stevenson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Paul Grier McCorkle December 19, 1863 Yorkville, South Carolina |
| Died | June 2, 1934 (aged 70) Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Resting place | York, South Carolina |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Alma mater | Kings Mountain Military School |
| Occupation | cotton broker |
Paul Grier McCorkle (December 19, 1863 – June 2, 1934) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they compose the legislature of the United States.
South Carolina is a state in the Southeastern United States and the easternmost of the Deep South. It is bordered to the north by North Carolina, to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the southwest by Georgia across the Savannah River.
Born in Yorkville (now York), York County, South Carolina, Mccorkle attended the public schools of his native city and Kings Mountain Military School, York, South Carolina. He was employed as a clerk in York, South Carolina. Cotton buyer and grader in Lancaster, South Carolina, and then in Chester, South Carolina. He returned to York, South Carolina, and engaged in business as a cotton broker and export classifier.
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York is a city in and county seat of York County, South Carolina, United States. The population was approximately 6,985 at the 2000 census and up to 7,736 at the 2010 census. York is located approximately 27 miles (43 km) southwest of Charlotte, North Carolina and 13 miles (21 km) west of Rock Hill, South Carolina.
The city of Lancaster is the county seat of Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States, located in the Charlotte Metropolitan Area. As of the United States Census of 2010, the city population was 9,134 but due to South Carolina's strict annexation laws its actual population is well over twenty thousand people. The city was named after the famous House of Lancaster.
Mccorkle was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative David E. Finley (February 21, 1917 – March 3, 1917). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1916. He engaged in the cotton brokerage business in York, South Carolina. Coroner of York County, South Carolina, from 1920 until his death in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 2, 1934. He was interred in Rose Hill Cemetery, York, South Carolina.
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Knoxville is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Knox County. The city had an estimated population of 186,239 in 2016 and a population of 178,874 as of the 2010 census, making it the state's third largest city after Nashville and Memphis. Knoxville is the principal city of the Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which, in 2016, was 868,546, up 0.9 percent, or 7,377 people, from to 2015. The KMSA is, in turn, the central component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette Combined Statistical Area, which, in 2013, had a population of 1,096,961.
