Olin D. Johnston
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Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston was an American politician from the US state of South Carolina. He served as the 98th governor of South Carolina, from 1935 to 1939 and again from 1943 to 1945. He repres
Olin D. Johnston, seated portrait
Johnston as governor.
Pardon
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A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be relieved of some or all of the legal consequences resulting from a criminal conviction. A pardon may be granted before or after conviction for
Olin D. Johnston
…He represented the state in the United States Senate from 1945 until his death from pneumonia in Columbia, South Carolina in 1965. In 1944, he denied clemency to George Stinney, a 14 year-old African American boy who was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1944 after a trial that lasted for one single day…
A 1966 U.S. Clemency Certificate