biography
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Smith, Ellison DuRant
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known as Cotton Ed
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| lived:
| (1866–1944)
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| biography:
| US senator, born near Lynchburg, South Carolina, USA. Himself a cotton planter, he devoted his long political career to fighting high tariffs and Northern business and financial interests. He served in the US Senate (Democrat, South Carolina, 1904–44), and after opposing Republican administrations he at first welcomed President Franklin Roosevelt, but he soon opposed the New Deal policies and agencies that he believed were inimical to the Southern way of life. He was also an outspoken white supremacist, and during World War 2 he opposed the national mobilization efforts. |
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