Thomas S. McMillan
Thomas Sanders McMillan (* November 27, 1888 at Ulmer, Allendale County, South Carolina, † September 29, 1939 in Charleston, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1939 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Thomas McMillan attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1907, the Orangeburg Collegiate Institute. Between 1907 and 1908 he taught himself as a teacher. McMillan was at that time also a professional baseball player and coach. After studying law at the University of South Carolina in Columbia and its made in 1913 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Charleston. He also began to work in agriculture.
Politically, McMillan was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1917 and 1924 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. There he was in the last years President of the House. In 1924 he was the first electoral district of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of W. Turner Logan on March 4, 1925. After he was confirmed in each case in the following seven elections, he could remain until his death in September 1939 in Congress. During this time he first saw the blooming boom of the 1920s, the world economic crisis. Between 1933 and 1939 most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Congress. In 1933, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution ratified. It was about the definition of the terms of office of the Congress and the President, and the repeal of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution of 1919, by which the alcohol ban was introduced nationwide.
Between 1937 and 1939, Thomas McMillan was a member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union; in 1939 he took part in the conference in Oslo as an American delegate. He died on 29 November 1939 in Charleston, and was also buried there. His parliamentary seat fell after a by-election to his widow Clara, who finished his last term in Congress Unopened until January 3, 1941.