James Francis Byrnes was born on May 2, 1882, in Charleston, South Carolina, and died on April 9, 1972, and is the only person to have served in both houses of Congress, as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, as a state governor and in a cabinet post. Roosevelt appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1941, but at just one year and eighty seven days his tenure was the shortest of any justice in history, since Roosevelt soon asked him to leave the bench and lead the Office of Economic Stabilization and Office of War Mobilization after the United States entered the Second World War; he was also the last justice never to have earned a law degree. After Roosevelts death he became President Trumans secretary of state, attending the Potsdam Conference and the Paris Peace Conference before resigning from the cabinet in 1947, and he later returned to elected office as governor of South Carolina, where he opposed the Supreme Courts Brown v. Board of Education decision and sought to preserve segregated schools under a separate but equal framework.
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RoleSourced to the subject's own account104th Governor of South Carolina (1951-1955); 49th United States Secretary of State (1945-1947); Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1941-1942); United States Senator from South Carolina (1931-1941) 2 Nationality / JurisdictionSourced to the subject's own accountUnited States; federal common law system 2 BornSourced to the subject's own account Birth DateSourced to the subject's own account BirthplaceSourced to the subject's own accountCharleston, South Carolina, United States 2 DiedSourced to the subject's own account Death DateSourced to the subject's own account Place of DeathSourced to the subject's own accountColumbia, South Carolina, United States 2 Classification
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What offices did James F. Byrnes hold across the three branches of government?
Congress, the Supreme Court, and the executive branch as Secretary of State, plus governor of South Carolina.
Byrnes served in the U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, and in the executive branch, most prominently as the 49th U.S. Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman. He was also the 104th governor of South Carolina.
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James Francis Byrnes (US: BURNZ; May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina.
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However, he also opposed some of the labor laws proposed by Roosevelt, such as the Fair Labor Standards Act, which established a minimum wage that hurt his state's competitive advantage of very low factory wages.
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James Francis Byrnes (US: BURNZ; May 2, 1882 - April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina.
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James Francis Byrnes (US: BURNZ; May 2, 1882 - April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina.
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Byrnes was born at 538 King Street in Charleston, South Carolina, and was reared in Charleston.
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Byrnes died at the age of 89, and was interred in the churchyard at Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbia, South Carolina.
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was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, most prominently as the 49th U.S. Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman. Byrnes was also the 104th governor of South Carolina.
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was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, most prominently as the 49th U.S. Secretary of State under President Harry S. Truman. Byrnes was also the 104th governor of South Carolina.
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of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, most prominently as the
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- In Legal System: Law of the United States, James Francis Byrnes (US: BURNZ; May 2, 1882, April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina.
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