Olin D. Johnston
American politician
Died when: 68 years 151 days (821 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston (November 18, 1896 – April 18, 1965) was an American politician from the US state of South Carolina.He served as the 98th governor of South Carolina, 1935–1939 and 1943–1945, and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1945 until his death from pneumonia in Columbia, South Carolina in 1965.
He has become infamous for denying clemency to George 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.
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