Ex-SC Gov. James Edwards Was True 'Conservative's Conservative'

Following the news Friday that former South Carolina Gov. James B. Edwards had died at age 87, perhaps the most unique development that followed was that obituaries did not focus on his accomplishments in office or on his later service as Ronald Reagan's secretary of energy. Instead, the resulting tributes to Edwards were almost universally about his election as governor in 1974 - an historic election of high drama that saw Edwards emerge from nowhere to become the Palmetto State's first Republican governor since Reconstruction.

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