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Olin D. Johnston- TSL (Gov. of South Carolina):
$30.00
Typed letter from 1943 signed in blck felt tip ink by Olin D. Johnston. In great condition.Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston(November 18, 1896– April 18, 1965) was an American politician from the US state ofSouth Carolina. He served as the98th governor of South Carolina, 1935–1939 and 1943–1945, and represented the state in theUnited States Senatefrom 1945 until his death from pneumonia inColumbia, South Carolinain 1965. He has become infamous for denyingclemencytoGeorge Stinney, a 14 year-old African-American boy who was sentenced to death in 1944 after a trial that lasted for one single day, a conviction overturned 70 years later.
