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Floyd Davidson Spence (April 9, 1928 – August 16, 2001) was an American attorney and a politician from the U.S. state of South Carolina.Elected for three terms to the South Carolina House of Representatives from Lexington County as a Democrat, in 1962 Spence announced his decision to switch to the Republican Party, as he was unhappy with shifts in the national party.
On June 9, 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued a statewide proclamation declaring 8 minutes 46 seconds of silence at 11:00 a.m. CDT to coincide with the beginning of Floyd's funeral in Houston. [4] On May 24, 2021, on the one-year anniversary of Floyd's murder, Walz declared a statewide moment of silence for 9 minutes and 29 seconds for 1: ...
The Friendship Nine, or Rock Hill Nine, [1] was a group of African-American men who went to jail after staging a sit-in at a segregated McCrory's lunch counter in Rock Hill, South Carolina in 1961.
The county is named in honor of David Holmes, territorial governor and the first governor of the state of Mississippi and later United States Senator for Mississippi. [3] Holmes County native, Edmond Favor Noel, was an attorney and state politician, elected as governor of Mississippi, serving from 1908 to 1912.
A Mississippi woman was arrested after authorities allege she fatally shot her estranged husband outside a courthouse. Tanya Saucier, 49, is being held at the Lenoir Rowell Criminal Justice Center ...
Jack Nicholson spent some quality time with his loved ones over the holiday season.. In an Instagram post shared by his daughter Lorraine Nicholson on Thursday, Jan. 2, the actor, 87, was captured ...
The arrests occur amid a number of reported drone sightings in the Northeast, including New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania.
A.P. Williams Funeral Home is a historic African-American funeral home located at Columbia, South Carolina. It was built between 1893 and 1911 as a single-family residence, and is a two-story frame building with a hipped roof with gables and a columned porch. At that time, it was one of six funeral homes that served black customers.