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==Governor==

==Governor==

Posing as the friend of ordinary white farmers, Tillman took over the South Carolina [[Farmers Alliance]], and used the organization as a platform for his political ambitions. He was elected Governor of South Carolina, in 1890, and served from December 1890 to December 1894. He helped establish Clemson College, now Clemson University. When the Alliance in other states moved toward the [[Populist Party]] and its radical "Ocala Demands", Tillman arranged for the South Carolina Democratic Party to adopt the platform, wholesale.  The strategy prevented the development of an independent Populist Party, assuring white control through the dominant, white Democratic Party. As governor, his most important achievement was founding [[Clemson University]], much to the agony of Bourbon Democrats in the state, lead by former Governor [[Wade Hampton|Wade Hampton III]].

Posing as the friend of ordinary white farmers, Tillman took over the South Carolina [[Farmers Alliance]], and used the organization as a platform for his political ambitions. He was elected Governor of South Carolina, in 1890, and served from December 1890 to December 1894. He helped establish Clemson College, now Clemson University. When the Alliance in other states moved toward the [[Populist Party]] and its radical "Ocala Demands", Tillman arranged for the South Carolina Democratic Party to adopt the platform, wholesale.  The strategy prevented the development of an independent Populist Party, assuring white control through the dominant, white Democratic Party.  

Tillman was largely responsible for calling the State constitutional convention, in 1895, that disfranchised almost all of South Carolina's blacks and imposed the [[Jim Crow]] of segregation and second class status for blacks.

Tillman was largely responsible for calling the State constitutional convention, in 1895, that disfranchised almost all of South Carolina's blacks and imposed the [[Jim Crow]] of segregation and second class status for blacks.