James F. Byrnes

James Francis Byrnes (1879-1972) was a confidante of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and at one point suggested as his candidate for Vice President. He served as a senator, a Justice of the Supreme Court, head of the New Deal's Economic Stablization Office, and Secretary of State under President Truman, with whom he had a falling out. Opposed to desegregation (the issue had lost him his chance to run as Vice President, he became governor of South Carolina and eventually switched allegiances to the Republican Party.

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