Nathaniel B. Dial

Nathaniel Barksdale Dial ( * April 24, 1862 in Laurens, Laurens County, South Carolina, † December 11, 1940 in Washington DC ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.

Nathaniel Dial attended the public schools of his home as well as in connection Richmond College in Virginia and Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He then studied law at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, whereupon he was admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced practice in Laurens. From 1887 to 1891 he was mayor of his home town; In 1895, he held that post again.

When U.S. President Grover Cleveland in 1893 antrug him the office of the American consul in Zurich, refused Dial. Instead, he worked in the banking industry and as a partner of several manufacturing companies. In 1912 he wrote his first application for a seat in the U.S. Senate, but remained unsuccessful. Six years later, he won election to the Senate, after which he moved to Congress on March 4, 1919. In Washington, he spent a six -year term; However, he was not prepared by his party for re-election, the Coleman Livingston Blease nominated instead. Dials time in the Senate ended on March 3, 1925.

In the same year he was a member of a commission to investigate the benefits of a nitrate plant in Muscle Shoals ( Alabama). Then dial again worked as a lawyer in South Carolina and Washington; he went back to his former business activities until his death in the national capital in 1940.