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unusual facts about Simeon S. Pennewill


Simeon S. Pennewill

Pennewill inherited and continued to operate his family's peach orchards in Greenwood and Bridgeville.


J. Lyter Donaldson

Although no Republican had won that office since the height of national Republican strength in 1927, before the Great Depression, Donaldson lost the general election to Republican Simeon S. Willis, 279,144 to 270,525, with 3,239 votes going to the Prohibition Party candidate.

Simeon S. Willis

Infighting among the state's Democrats combined with Willis's popular proposal to eliminate the state income tax carried him to a narrow victory over J. Lyter Donaldson.


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