march121913

He's the cheerful looking fellow nearest the camera. Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) was a U.S. Senator from South Carolina, from 1895 until his death in 1918. He gained the sobriquet "Pitchfork Ben" after threatening from the Senate floor to "...poke old [President] Grover [Cleveland] with a pitchfork...." Prior to his time in the Senate, he had been Governor of South Carolina from 1890 to 1894. During the period after the Civil War, he had been the leader of a paramilitary group called the Red Shirts, which had terrorized and sometimes murdered Republicans and African Americans. He was an advocate of lynching. There is a statue of him outside the South Carolina Statehouse. Fairly decent biographical sketch at Wikipedia.

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"terrorized and sometimes murdered Republicans and African Americans. He was an advocate of lynching. There is a statue of him outside the South Carolina Statehouse" So in other words he's a typical Democrat

South Carolina's disgrace

I think this is a picture of John Burke, on the right, who was the 10th Governor of North Dakota. He was Governor from 1907 to 1913. He was also the Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921). (CoryQ)

guitar player and bassist for the little-known 1910 rock band "men with hats"

later broke up and formed"the bolo hat boys"

Burke was not the governor of Montana, here is a list of those: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Governors_of_Montana

great classic shot.