Thomas A. Wofford

Thomas Albert Wofford ( born September 27, 1908 in Madden Station, Laurens County, South Carolina, † February 25, 1978 in Greenville, South Carolina) was an American politician who represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. Senate.

Thomas Wofford attended the public schools and made his 1928 graduation from the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Followed in 1931 by the exam at the Law School at Harvard, after which he was admitted in the following year to the bar and commenced practice in Greenville. From 1935 to 1936 he was deputy district attorney of the 13th Judicial District of South Carolina; 1937-1944 he held the post of deputy district prosecutor. He was from 1944 to 1956 Board Member at Winthrop College.

On April 5, 1956 Wofford was appointed by the Democratic party for U.S. senator. He entered Washington, the successor to the retiring Strom Thurmond, but remained only until November 6, 1956 at the Parliament. In the meantime, Thurmond had again applied for his party's nomination and decided the primaries for themselves; the victory in the actual election was practically assured.

Wofford then worked again as a lawyer, but returned again back into politics. From 1966 to 1972 he was a member of the Senate of South Carolina, where he had changed his party affiliation and had gone over to the Republicans.