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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Nathaniel B. Dial |
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Laurens, South Carolina , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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April 24, 1862
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| Died | December 11, 1940
(78 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | DIAL, Nathaniel Barksdale, a Senator from South Carolina; born near Laurens, Laurens County, S.C., April 24, 1862, attended the common schools, Richmond (Va.) College, and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.; studied law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; admitted to the bar in 1883 and commenced practice in Laurens, S.C.; mayor of Laurens 1887-1891 and again in 1895; declined the office of consul to Zurich, Switzerland, tendered by President Grover Cleveland in 1893; engaged in banking and in various manufacturing enterprises; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1912; elected in 1918 as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1919, to March 3, 1925; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1924; member of the commission to report on the use of the nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, Ala., 1925; resumed the practice of law in South Carolina and Washington, D.C., and also his former manufacturing enterprises in South Carolina; died in Washington, D.C., on December 11, 1940; interment in Laurens Cemetery, Laurens, S.C.
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