Thomas S. McMillan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Baseball player and coach, lawyer, politician
Date of Birth: 27-Nov-1888
Place of Birth: Ulmer, South Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 29-Sep-1939
Profession: lawyer, politician, baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Thomas S. McMillan
- Thomas Sanders McMillan (November 27, 1888 – September 29, 1939) was a lawyer and a United States Representative from South Carolina. Born in the town of Ulmer in Allendale County, 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 Perry.
- McMillan then enrolled at the University of South Carolina 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 South Carolina House of Representatives from 1917 to 1924 and he served as speaker from 1923 to 1924.
- In addition, he was the head baseball coach at The Citadel from 1916 to 1919; for five years before law school, he had played professional minor league baseball with the South Atlantic League. 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 United States House of Representatives to represent the 1st congressional district in 1924 for the Sixty-ninth Congress.
- He was re-elected six more times and while in Congress was a member of the executive committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union from 1937 to 1939.
- McMillan died in Charleston and was interred in Magnolia Cemetery.
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