Roger C. Peace

Roger Craft Peace ( born May 19, 1899 in Greenville, South Carolina; † August 20, 1968 ibid ) was an American politician (Democratic Party), who represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.

Roger Peace attended the public schools and then Furman University in his hometown where he graduated in 1919. In the meantime he had previously been in the employ of the U.S. Army and in the late phase of the First World War, formed in a training camp in Ohio recruits. Subsequently he worked as a newspaper reporter and sports reporter in Greenville; later he was then managing director and editor. From 1930 to 1934 he belonged to the staff of the Governor of South Carolina, Ibra Charles Blackwood, at; 1938-1948 he was curator of Furman University.

After the death of U.S. Senator Alva M. Lumpkin on August 1, 1941 Roger Peace was appointed four days later his successor. Lumpkin was even nachgerückt until 22 July of the same year for the retired James F. Byrnes in the Congress. Peace took the directorship until November 4, 1941 in the by-election, he decided not to run. He retired from politics and was active again after a journalist; until his death, he was also chairman of the company Multimedia, Inc.

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