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Coleman Livingston Blease
Senate Years of
Service: 1925-1931 BLEASE, Coleman Livingston, a Senator from South Carolina; born near Newberry, Newberry County, S.C., October 8, 1868; attended the common schools; graduated from the law department of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., in 1889; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Newberry, S.C.; member, State house of representatives 1890-1894, 1899, and 1900, serving as speaker pro tempore 1892-1894; mayor of Helena, S.C., in 1897; city attorney of Newberry in 1901 and 1902; member, State senate 1905-1909, serving as president pro tempore in 1906 and 1907; mayor of Newberry in 1910; Governor of South Carolina 1911-1915; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1925, to March 3, 1931; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1930; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1934 and 1938; elected a member of the State unemployment compensation commission for a four-year term beginning in 1941; died in Columbia, S.C., January 19, 1942; interment in Rosemont Cemetery, Newberry, S.C. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present Contributed by A. Newell
Blease, Coleman Livingston, governor of the state of South
Carolina, was born in October, 1856,
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in Newberry
County, S. C. He received his collegiate education at Newberry College;
and graduated from the Georgetown Law School at Washington, D. C. In
1894-1900 he served three terms as a representative in the South Carolina
State Legislature; and was twice elected speaker pro tem. He has been
county chairman; a member of nearly all the state conventions; and for the
past ten years has been a member of the State Democratic Executive
Committee. He has also served three terms as city attorney of Newberry;
and is a prominent member of the Improved Order of Red Men; Independent
Order of Odd Fellows; Knights of Pythias; and Woodmen of the World. In
1905-09 he was member of the South Carolina State Senate; and was the
president pro tem of that body. He was elected governor of South Carolina
for the second term of 1913-15; and resides in Columbia, S. C.
