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Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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ASHMORE, Robert Thomas, (cousin of John Durant Ashmore),
a Representative from South Carolina; born on a farm near
Greenville, S.C., February 22, 1904; attended the public schools of Greenville;
was graduated from Furman University Law School, Greenville, S.C., in 1927;
while a student engaged in agricultural work, retail sales, and as a substitute
rural mail carrier; was admitted to the bar in January 1928 and engaged in the
practice of law in Greenville, S.C.; solicitor of Greenville County Court
1930-1934; solicitor of the thirteenth judicial circuit of South Carolina
1936-1953; during the Second World War, while on official leave from duties as
solicitor, volunteered for service in the United States Army in December 1942,
serving in this country and overseas until discharged from active duty in May
1946, as a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army Reserve; promoted to
colonel in 1955; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Joseph R. Bryson; reelected to the Eighty-fourth
and to the six succeeding Congresses (June 2, 1953-January 3, 1969); was not a
candidate for reelection in 1968 to the Ninety-first Congress; resumed the
practice of law; member of the board, South Carolina Appalachian Regional
Planning and Development Commission (later South Carolina Appalachian Council
of Governments), 1970-1989, and chairman, 1970-1972; was a resident of
Greenville, S.C., until his death there on October 5, 1989; interment in White
Oak Baptist Church Cemetery, Greenville, S.C.
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