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Smith, Ellison DuRant

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Smith, Ellison DuRant (1866–1944)

US Democrat senator. He devoted his long political career to fighting high tariffs and Northern business/financial interests. He served in the US Senate for 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 born near Lynchburg, South Carolina. He was a cotton planter. He was an outspoken white supremacist and during World War II he opposed the national mobilization efforts.



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