Burnet R. Maybank
American politician
Died when: 55 years 178 days (665 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Burnet Rhett Maybank (March 7, 1899 – September 1, 1954) was a three-term US senator, the 99th governor of South Carolina, and mayor of Charleston, South Carolina.
He was the first governor from Charleston since the American Civil War (1861-1865) and one of only twenty people in United States history to have been elected mayor, governor, and United States senator.
During his tenure in the Senate, Maybank was a powerful ally of President Franklin D.Roosevelt.His unexpected death on September 1, 1954, from a heart attack, led to Strom Thurmond being elected senator.
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