James Robert Mann (South Carolina)

James Robert Mann (* April 27, 1920 in Greenville, South Carolina, † December 20, 2010 ) was an American politician. Between 1969 and 1979 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Mann attended until 1937 the Greenville High School. He then completed until 1941 the military academy The Citadel in Charleston. During the Second World War 1941-1946 husband was an officer in the U.S. Army. He then became a member of the military reserve. He was from 1951 to 1952 and director of the Veterans Association of South Carolina. After a subsequent law studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and its made ​​in 1947 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession. At that time he was also a legal newspaper, the South Carolina Law Review, out.

Politically man joined the Democratic Party. Between 1949 and 1952 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. From 1954 to 1962 he was district attorney in the 13th Judicial District of South Carolina. Thereafter, he served from 1963 to 1967 as Secretary of the Planning Commission in Greenville County. James Mann was from 1966 to 1968 and curator of the urban hospital affiliation of Greenville.

1968 Man in the fourth constituency of South Carolina was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert T. Ashmore on January 3, 1969. After four elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1979 five contiguous legislatures. In this time, among other things, the Watergate affair fell. At that time man was a member of the Legal Affairs Committee, who proposed the initiation of impeachment of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Nixon came to this method, then through his resignation in August 1974 before.

Man renounced in 1978 to another candidacy. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. He was married to Virginia Thomson Brunson.