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MANN, James Robert, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Greenville, Greenville
County, S.C., April 27, 1920; graduated from Greenville High School,
Greenville, S.C., 1937; B.A., The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., 1941; LL.B.,
University of South Carolina Law School, Columbia, S.C., 1947; editor, South
Carolina Law Review, 1947; United States Army, 1941-1946; United States Army
Reserve; member, South Carolina state house of representatives, 1949-1952; was
admitted to the bar in 1947; lawyer, private practice; appointed solicitor,
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of South Carolina, and elected in 1954 and
reelected in 1958; secretary, Greenville County Planning Commission, 1963-1967;
trustee, Greenville Hospital System, 1966-1968; commander, state of South
Carolina, Veterans of Foreign Wars, 1951-1952; elected as a Democrat to the
Ninety-first and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3,
1979); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978;
resumed the practice of law; died on December 20, 2010, in Greenville,
S.C.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: James R. Mann, Democratic Representative
from South Carolina. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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