The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-03-26
COL. J. G.. PADGETT,

COL. J. G. PADGETT,
CANDIDATE For CONGRESS.
ex Clerk of Court of Colleton
County and his mother, before
her marriage to Capt. Padgett,
was Miss Isabella Goodwin.
Col. Padgett's boyhood was
that of other boys whose parents
who were poor. His youth was
spent at work on a farm and he
enjoyed none Of the pleasures
nor advantages of life in town.
MISUNDERSTANDING which
his work on his fathers farm per.
mitted, was gotten around Will
liams.
His father, being unable to pay
his way through college, in 1885
he won a scholarship to the
Citadel over Is competitors and
graduated from that college in
the Glass Of 1892. Col. Padgett
has always enjoyed that. happy
faculty of making friends: and
to a man, his schoolmates, as a
boy and his college-mates as a
young man have stuck by him.
He is proud Of that fact, too.
AS a beneficiary of the State,
the law required him to teach
for a time in it's public schools,
so Immediately upon graduation
be came back to his home county
and taught at ST.. George, which
was then a part of Colleton
County.
he studied law under Howell,
Murphy and Farrow until the
dissolution of that firm, when he
continued his studies under
Howell & Gruber. In 1895 he was
was admitted to the Bar and
formed a partnership with the
lamented J. S. Griffin for the
practice Of his profession at
Walterboro.
In 1897 he married Miss Ethel
Moorer, daughter of DR.. Pinck'
ney L. and Martha H. Moorer,
of St. George. St. George was
yet part Of Colleton County.
it is an interesting fact that his
wife was his former pupil.
By his sheer ability, as law,
yer, his keen insight into human
nature and a fortunate trait
which causes him to make his
clients cause his own and fight
for him to the last ditch; he has
risen to the top OF his profession
at his home bar, and has always
enjoyed an extensive practice
A man need not be rich to secure
his services. Those who know
| him best. know that his services
are for all. Some of his hardest
tights have been made for the
poor without compensation
There is scarcely case in court
lin which his services are not en-
gagged as counsel of the oppos
ling parties, and he has, perhaps
1defended more criminals thar
any other lawyer in the lower
part of South Carolina, being re
markably successful. At presen
he is a county attorney and thu
|senior member Of the hrm O
Padgett, Lemacks & Moorer.
| Col. Padgett has always takel
a keen interest in all public
laffairs and subscribed liberall1
Thereto. He has served as
school trustee, an officer OF th'
IFair Association, chairman O
the Board of Stewards and
trustee Of the Methodist churcl
lat WATERFORD, an alternate tt
1.-The Democratic Convention a
baltimore, a colonel on the stat
Of Governor D. G.. Hayward, ant
lin 1912 he was elected by tn
democrats Of the State as
presidential elector: AS presl
dent of the electoral college, h
cast his vote for Woodrow vii
|son for President Of the UnlteC
Estates.
Colonel Padgett is q we'll
rounded: capable man Of eSper
ience, and as a congressman
would reflect credit on the dis
trict. He understands tn
needs of the rural districts a
we'll as that Of the towns am
cities. Being Of poor parentag
and raised on the farm to work
|he perhaps better understands
and sympathizes with the farme
more than any other man in th
race. He has never lost his IN
terest in that life, and for
number Of years back, has ru
a three-horse farm near Walter