The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-03-19

COL. JIG. 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.
The eintermittents schooling 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 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 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.
After teaching at st. George
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 aud
formed a partnership with the
lamented J. S. Griffin for the
practice of his profession at
Walterboro.
In 1897 be married Miss Ethel
Moorer, daughter of DR.. Pinck-
ney L. and Martha II. Moorer,
of st. George. St. George was
yet a part Of Colleton County.
1t is an interesting fact that his
wife was his former pupil.
By his sheer ability, as a 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
fights have been made for the
poor without compensation.
There is scarcely case in court
in which his services are not en-
gagged as counsel of the oppos-
ing parties, and he has, perhaps
defended more criminals than
any other lawyer in the lower
part of South Carolina, being re
markably successful. At present
he is a county attorney and the
senior member of the firm of
Padgett, Lemacks & Moorer.
Col. Padgett has always taken
a keen interest in all public
affairs and subscribed literally
thereto. He has served as IL
school trustee, an officer of the
Fair Association, chairman of
the Board of Stewards and a
trustee of the M''hodist church
at Walterbor l.. alternate to
the Demo :. I onventiOn at
Baltimore, x ~ on the staff
of Governor -deyWard, and
in 1912 be Was elected by the
Democrats of the State as a
presidential elector. As presi-
dent of the electoral college, he
cast his vote for Woodrow vii |
son for President of the United
States.
Colonel Padgett is a we'll
capable man of exper-
Ience, and as a congressman
would reflect credit on the dis
5rict. He understands the
needs of the rural districts as
we'll as that of the towns and
cities. Beng Of poor parentage
Ind raised on the farm to work,
le perhaps better understands,
nd sympathizes with the farmer
more than any other man in the
ace. He has never lost his in.
crest in that life, and for a
of years back, has run
/ three-horse farm near Walter