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Draft:George D. R. Tillman

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George Daniel Rainer Tillman (February 8, 1830 - February 7, 1908) was a Democratic representative. He was originally born in Helen, Georgia but lived in South Carolina from a very early age. He became a member of the local government in Lexington, South Carolina, where he lived for 46 years from the ages of six to fifty-one years old. After moving to Columbia, South Carolina and introducing himself to important South Carolina politicians M. E. Carn and Plowden Weston, he became a South Carolina congressman in the House of Representatives, serving from 1879 to 1881.[1] He death of what is now believed to have been cancer in 1908,[2] less than two hours before turning seventy-eight.

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  1. ^ "South Carolina State Documents Depository" – via dc.statelibrary.sc.gov. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ^ "The history of skin cancer - Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology".