Newberry is a city in Newberry County,South Carolina,United States,in the Piedmont 43 miles northwest of Columbia. The charter was adopted in 1894. The population was 10,277 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Newberry County;at one time it was called Newberry Courthouse.
James Francis Byrnes was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party,he served in U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court,as well as in the executive branch,most prominently as the 49th U.S. Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman. Byrnes was also the 104th Governor of South Carolina,making him one of the very few politicians to have served in the highest levels of all three branches of the American federal government while also being active in state government.
Coleman Livingston Blease was an American politician of the Democratic Party and perennial candidate who served as Governor of South Carolina from 1911 to 1915,and as a United States senator from 1925 to 1931. Blease was the political heir of Benjamin Tillman. He led a political revolution in South Carolina by building a political base of white textile mill workers from the state's upcountry region. He was notorious for playing on the prejudices of poor whites to gain their votes and was an unrepentant white supremacist. Ultimately,despite his political strength,Blease failed to pass any significant legislation while governor.
In the 1912 and 1913 United States Senate elections,Democrats gained control of the Senate from the Republicans. Of the 32 seats up for election,17 were won by Democrats,thereby gaining 4 seats from the Republicans. Two seats were unfilled by state legislators who failed to elect a new senator on time. They were the last Senate elections held before ratification of the 17th Amendment,which established direct elections for all seats in the Senate.
The 1910 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 8,1910,to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Coleman Livingston Blease won the Democratic primary and ran unopposed in the general election to become the 90th governor of South Carolina.
The 1912 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 5,1912,to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. Governor Coleman Livingston Blease won the Democratic primary. As South Carolina was a utterly dominated by the Democratic Party,he faced no significant opposition in the general election.
The 1942 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on November 3,1942 to select the U.S. Senator from the state of South Carolina. Incumbent Democratic Senator Burnet R. Maybank defeated Eugene S. Blease in the Democratic primary and was unopposed in the general election to win a six-year term.
The 1913 South Carolina United States Senate election was held on January 28,1913,when the South Carolina legislature met and unanimously ratified the results of the August 27,1912 primary. Incumbent Senator Ben Tillman was re-elected to a fourth term in office.
Charles Albert Woods was an Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and then a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Barrett v. United States,169 U.S. 218 (1898),was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that South Carolina had never effectively been subdivided into separate judicial districts. Therefore,it was held,a criminal defendant allegedly tried in one district for a crime committed in the other had in fact been permissibly been tried in a separate division of a single district.
William Lawrence Laval was an American minor league baseball player,baseball manager,and college baseball,football,and basketball coach. He held head coaching positions at the University of South Carolina,Furman University,Emory and Henry College,and Newberry College. He is the only South Carolina football coach to have produced seven consecutive winning seasons. In 2009,The State called him "the greatest collegiate coach" in the history of South Carolina.
Eugene Blackburn Gary was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Young John Pope was a South Carolina lawyer,mayor,attorney general,and chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Daniel Edward Hydrick Sr. was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born in Orangeburg,South Carolina on August 6,1860,and attended Wofford College before transferring to Vanderbilt University in 1880. He began practicing law in Spartanburg,South Carolina and was twice elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and then twice to the South Carolina Senate. He resigned during his second term in the South Carolina Senate to become a state trial court judge. His term began on December 15,1905. He was a trial judge until 1909 when he was elected to a seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was elected by the General Assembly to take the position left vacant when Ira B. Jones was elevated to the chief justice position,and he was commissioned on April 15,1909. He was reelected to a full term in 1918. He died on January 15,1921,in Washington,D.C.;he had been travelling from Baltimore,Maryland to Spartanburg,South Carolina to visit his son for Christmas and contracted pneumonia during the trip. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Spartanburg,South Carolina.
Richard Cannon Watts was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born on March 15,1853. Following an amendment to the South Carolina Constitution,a fourth seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court was added,and Richard Watts was elected by the South Carolina General Assembly to the position on January 10,1912. Justice Watts was the first person appointed to the newly created fifth seat on the state supreme court. He had previously been serving as a state trial judge. He was married to Littie McIver,a daughter of South Carolina Supreme Court chief justice Henry McIver. Watts died on October 13,1930,and is buried at the Laurens City Cemetery.
Milledge Lipscomb Bonham was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. On October 16,1854,he was born to Milledge Luke Bonham and Ann Patience Griffin. From 1863 to 1864,Bonham was educated at Sachlaben's Academy,Edgefield Academy between 1866 and 1872,and Carolina Military Institute (Charlotte) from 1875 to 1876. He was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1877 following his tutoring of the law under Colonel Robert Aldrich. He married Daisy Aldrich on October 24,1878,with whom he had three children. After Daisy died,Bonham remarried to Dr. Lillian L. Carter on March 2,1925.
Jesse F. Carter was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born to Miles McMillan Carter and Janie Kinard Carter. After local education for grade school,he attended Peabody College in Nashville,Tennessee,graduating in 1900. He periodically worked as a teacher between periods of study. He received his law degree from the University of South Carolina in 1905. He married Lydia Jenkins on October 3,1911,in Barnwell County. He was active in the Democratic party and served as the chairman of its executive committee for eleven years. In 1925,he was elected to the South Carolina Senate from Bamberg County. He was elected an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1927 and served until his death on November 5,1943.
Eugene Satterwhite Blease was the chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court from 1931 to 1934.
John Belton O'Neall was a judge who served on the precursor to the South Carolina Supreme Court. He is remembered for writing the digest The Negro Law of South Carolina.
