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Benjamin Ryan Tillman

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Benjamin Ryan Tillman Jr. (Aug. 11, 1847-July 3, 1918), governor of South Carolina and U.S. senator, was born on August 11, 1847, at Chester, his family's plantation in Edgefield District, South Carolina, the youngest child of Sophia Hancock and Benjamin Ryan Tillman, planters and innkeepers. His parents had 11 children — seven sons and four daughters.

Their children were as follows:

Thomas Frederick Tillman, (d. August 20, 1847), killed in the Mexican-American War;
George Dionysius Tillman (1826-1901), married Margaret Jones;
Martha Annsybil Tillman (1828-1886);
Harriet Susan Tillman (1831-1832);
John Miller Tillman (1833-1860), killed in a feud;
Oliver Hancock Tillman (1835-1860), killed in domestic dispute;
Anna Sophia Tillman Swearingen (1837-1909);
Frances Tillman Simpson (1840-1923);
James Adams Tillman (1842-1866), wounded at battle of Chickamauga;
Henry Cumming Tillman (1844-1859), who died of typhoid; and
Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918).

The Tillman family had resided in South Carolina since before the American Rev

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Who Was Ben Tillman?

Historic Columbia supports the removal of the Benjamin R. Tillman monument from the South Carolina State House grounds. To read a full statement on this topic, please click here.

We of the South have never recognized the right of the Negro to govern white men, and we never will.
- Benjamin R. Tillman, March 23, 1900

Throughout his political career, which spanned from 1890 until his death in 1918, Benjamin R. Tillman used two methods to silence Black voices in South Carolina: intimidation through violence and the suppression of legal rights. In a 1909 speech at the Red Shirt Reunion in Anderson, SC, Tillman boasted about his role in the 1876 murder of six Black militia members, whom he called “negro thugs.” White leaders celebrated the “Hamburg Riot” as a key victory of the 1876 Red Shirt paramilitary campaign, which successfully intimidated Black voters and stuffed ballot boxes to ensure the election of Wade Hampton III, and with it, the end of Reconstruction. Today, these murders are known as the Hamburg Massacre, one of the earliest lynchings i

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Benjamin Tillman

American politician (1847–1918)

Ben Tillman
Tillman c. 1910
In office March 4, 1895 – July 3, 1918
Preceded by	Matthew Butler
Succeeded by	Christie Benet
In office December 4, 1890 – December 4, 1894
Lieutenant	Eugene B. Gary (1890–1893) Washington H. Timmerman (1893–1894)
Preceded by	John Peter Richardson III
Succeeded by	John Gary Evans
Born	Benjamin Ryan Tillman Jr. (1847-08-11)August 11, 1847 Trenton, South Carolina, U.S.
Died	July 3, 1918(1918-07-03) (aged 70) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Sallie Starke (m. 1868)
Children	7
Relatives	George Dionysius Tillman (brother) James H. Tillman (nephew)
Education	South Carolina College
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Benjamin Ryan Tillman (August 11, 1847 – July 3, 1918) was a politician of the Democratic Party who served as governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894, and as a United States Senator from 1895 until his death in 1918. A white supremacist who op