James Hammond Tillman (June 27, 1869 – April 1, 1911) was an American lawyer and politician from South Carolina. Born in Edgefield County, he received his education in the Curryton Academy; the Virginia Military Institute; the Emerson Institute of Washington, D.C., and the Georgetown University Law School.[1] Between 1901 and 1903 he was Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina. He was the son of U.S. Representative George D. Tillman and nephew of Senator Benjamin Tillman.
James H. Tillman | |
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64th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina | |
In office January 15, 1901 – January 20, 1903 | |
Governor | Miles Benjamin McSweeney |
Preceded by | Robert B. Scarborough |
Succeeded by | John Sloan |
In 1903 he fatally shot journalist Narciso Gener Gonzales, co-founder of Columbia newspaper The State, and was acquitted of murder in a trial that gained national coverage.[2] It is believed that had he not murdered Gonzales, Tillman would have led the political movement which Coleman Livingston Blease inherited from him.[3]