Today, I stopped in at Bethel Church on the Callison Highway here in Greenwood to call on William Jennings Bryan Dorn.
Dorn was the congressman from this area for many years, and I met with him on several occasions.
William Jennings Bryan Dorn (April 14, 1916 – August 13, 2005) was a United States politician from South Carolina who represented the western part of the state in the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949 and from 1951 to 1975 as a Democrat.
Dorn was first elected to Congress in the 1946 election. In the 1948 election, he unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate seat that was later held by Strom Thurmond.
Dorn returned to the House in the 1950 election. Dorn was known for his work on issues related to the military and civil rights[citation needed]. He left Congress to run for Governor of South Carolina in 1974. He lost the Democratic primary to Charles D. Ravenel. However, Ravenel was later ruled[by whom?] ineligible to run as not meeting the residency requirement of the state constitution. A special state convention then chose Dorn as the Democratic candidate. He was defeated in the general election by Republican James B. Edwards, one of the few disappointments in what was generally a big year for Democrats. In 1978 Dorn again sought the Democratic nomination for Governor but was eliminated in a three way race. In 1980 he was elected chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party.
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