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 The Chronicle welcomes you online! Please feel free to respond to these editorials or letters to the editor by sending your letters to the editor.

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James F. Byrnes

James F. Byrnes

Web posted January 1, 2000

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He started his political career in Aiken as the court stenographer for South Carolina's 2nd Judicial Circuit. He studied law at night, passed the bar exam in 1903 and began practicing in Aiken. He became circuit solicitor in 1908 and kept that job until elected to Congress in 1910. He is credited with establishing the first national highway system, U.S. Highway 1. He urged his friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to run for governor of New York in 1924 and the presidency in 1932. He dominated the national political scene the first half of the 20th century. He served in the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, was a U.S. Supreme Court justice, was director of the office of War Mobilization (1943-45), became U.S. secretary of State (1945-47) and finally South Carolina governor (1951-55).