Draft:George D. R. Tillman

George Daniel Rainer Tillman (February 8, 1830 - February 7, 1908) was a Democratic representative. He was originally born in Helen, Georgia but lived in South Carolina from a very early age. He became a member of the local government in Lexington, South Carolina, where he lived for 46 years from the ages of six to fifty-one years old. After moving to Columbia, South Carolina and introducing himself to important South Carolina politicians M. E. Carn and Plowden Weston, he became a South Carolina congressman in the House of Representatives, serving from 1879 to 1881. He death of what is now believed to have been cancer in 1908, less than two hours before turning seventy-eight.