Thomas Sanders McMillan (November 27, 1888 – September 29, 1939) was a lawyer and a

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from

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. Born in the town of

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, McMillan received his early childhood education at the schools in Ulmer. He graduated from the Orangeburg Collegiate Institute in 1907 and taught school for the next two years in

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. McMillan then enrolled at the

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and graduated in 1912. In 1913, he completed the law course at the university and was admitted to the bar the same year. He moved to Charleston where he began the practice of law on January 1, 1915, with James B. Heyward, as well as pursuing his agricultural interests. McMillan served in the

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from 1917 to 1924 and he served as

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from 1923 to 1924. In addition, he was the head baseball coach at

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from 1916 to 1919; for five years before law school, he had played professional minor league baseball in the

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, playing his final two seasons with the Charleston Sea Gulls. 171 Moultrie Street

While serving in the United States Congress, McMillan maintained a house in Charleston, South Carolina at 171 Moultrie St. Today, the house is a contributing structure to the Hampton Park Terrace National Register Historic District and is used as a faculty house for the Citadel. He was elected to the

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to represent the 1st congressional district in 1924 for the

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. He was re-elected six more times and while in Congress was a member of the executive committee of the

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from 1937 to 1939. McMillan died in Charleston and was interred in Magnolia Cemetery.

References

Yates Snowden, ''History of South Carolina'' (1920).

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