Drake Edens

**James Drake Edens Jr.**, wanda aka fi sani da **J. Drake Edens** ko **Drake Edens** (Mayu 13, 1925 &#x2013; Yuli 30, 1982), mutane da yawa sun gane shi a matsayin uban Jam'iyyar Republican ta Kudu Carolina ta zamani. 

## Tarihin Rayuwa
An haife shi a Blaney, South Carolina (yanzu Elgin ), Edens ya shafe rayuwarsa gaba ɗaya game da babban birnin Columbia .  Mahaifiyarsa ita ce tsohuwar May Youmans, 'yar asalin Hampton County, South Carolina. Mahaifinsa, Drake Sr., ya haɓaka gonar iyali zuwa sarkar babban kanti, kuma Edens ya koma cikin yanayin gudanarwa a cikin Shagunan Abinci na Edens. Lokacin da yakin duniya na biyu ya katse aikinsa, Edens ya shiga cikin Marine Corps na Amurka kuma ya yi aiki daga 1943 zuwa 1946, yana ganin aiki a gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Pacific .  Lokacin da ya dawo rayuwa ta sirri, Edens ya auri Ferrell McCracken (1923 – 1982), ɗan asalin Arewacin Carolina wanda ya sadu da shi yayin da su biyun ke hidima a cikin Marines. Edens ya yi rajista a Jami'ar South Carolina a Columbia kuma a cikin 1949 ya sauke karatu tare da digiri a cikin harkokin kasuwanci . A cikin 1955, Gidajen Abinci na Edens sun haɗu da Winn-Dixie, kuma a shekara mai zuwa Edens ya kafa Hukumar Edens-Turbeville, wanda ya zama shugaban ƙasa daga 1956 zuwa 1964, lokacin da ya sayar da sha'awar kamfanin zuwa WL Turbeville.

Sha'awar siyasa ta Edens ta bayyana a cikin 1960 lokacin da ya shirya kulob din Republican a yankinsa a lokacin yakin neman zabe mai ban sha'awa wanda John F. Kennedy, wanda ya ba da mamaki ga wasu masu lura da siyasa, ya dauki South Carolina a kan mataimakin shugaban kasa Richard M. Nixon . Ya zaburar da shi ta hanyar shigarsa duniyar siyasa, Edens ya yi aiki a matsayin abokin hadin gwiwar yakin neman zaben Charles E. Boineau Jr., zuwa Majalisar Wakilai ta Kudu Carolina a 1961. Boineau ya zama dan Republican na farko a majalisar dokoki a karni na ashirin. 

A cikin 1962, Edens ya haɓaka sararin samaniyar siyasarsa, yana aiki da dukan jihar a matsayin shugaban Jam'iyyar Republican WD Workman Jr. ta yakin neman zabe a kan Democrat mai ci Olin D. Johnston .  Ta hanyar jefa kuri'a mai ban mamaki kashi 43 cikin dari na kuri'un, Workman ya tabbatar da ingancin jam'iyyar Republican a South Carolina. Ranar 23 ga Fabrairu, 1963, an zaɓi Edens shugaban jam'iyyar Republican ta South Carolina.  A 1964 Babban Taron Jam'iyyar Republican a San Francisco, Edens, a matsayin shugaban tawagar wakilai goma sha shida na South Carolina, ya jefa kuri'un South Carolina na Barry Goldwater, ya sanya Goldwater a saman kuma ya tabbatar da cewa zai yi adawa da Lyndon B. Johnson a yakin neman zaben shugaban kasa.  Edens ya jagoranci kokarin Goldwater a South Carolina, inda Goldwater ya zama sananne sosai kuma ya sami kashi 59 na kuri'un.

A lokacin wani gagarumin 1965, Edens ya sayar da sha'awarsa ga Edens-Turbeville don yin aiki da kansa a cikin kamfanoni daban-daban da suka shafi gidaje, noma, sarrafa katako, da saka hannun jari. Ya kuma jagoranci yakin neman zaben Albert Watson na Majalisa. Ranar 15 ga Satumba, 1965, Edens ya yi murabus a matsayin shugaban jam'iyyar jiha   kuma an zabe shi dan jam'iyyar Republican National Committee for South Carolina, yana samun muhimmiyar murya a cikin harkokin Republican a matakin kasa. 

A cikin 1966, Edens ya taka rawa a yakin neman zaben shugaban kasa na biyu na Richard Nixon. Ya zama memba na farko na Kwamitin Kasa na Republican don bayyana goyon bayansa ga yunkurin Nixon na 1968. A lokacin yakin neman zabe, Edens ya yi aiki a kan kwamitin Nixon na kasa na shugaban kasa, kwamitin kudi na Nixon na kasa, kuma ya jagoranci kwamitin kudi na Nixon na South Carolina. Jama'a sun fara sanin matsalolin kiwon lafiya da suka addabi Edens a duk tsawon rayuwarsa na girma a cikin 1968, lokacin da Edens, wanda ke fama da cututtukan ulcerative colitis da rheumatoid amosanin gabbai, aka tilasta masa ya hana ayyukansa masu kuzari da tasiri a madadin shugaban da zai gaje shi. .

A cikin 1972, Edens ya sauka a matsayin mataimakin shugaban kwamitin jam'iyyar Republican. Gwamnan gaba Richard Riley, a cikin wani mashahurin motsi, ya nada Edens zuwa Hukumar Kula da Dabbobi da Albarkatun Ruwa ta Kudu Carolina. A cikin 1979, Edens ya zama shugaban hukumar. 

Ya nutse yayin da yake iyo a tsibirin Dabino a ranar 30 ga Yuli, 1982.  Misis Edens, tsohuwar Ferrell McCracken, ta mutu kwanaki talatin da uku bayan mutuwar mijinta a ranar 1 ga Satumba, 1982. 

## Manazarta


## Hanyoyin haɗi na waje

* Takardun J. Drake Edens a Tarin Siyasa na Kudancin Carolina a Jami'ar South Carolina