![Benjamin Tillman with one eye closed.](/sites/default/files/2021-05/BRT%20640x480.png)
Benjamin Ryan Tillman. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
(1847-1918) Benjamin Ryan Tillman was the governor of South Carolina from 1890-1894 who founded what is now Clemson University, regulated the railroads, and helped write a constitution designed to disenfranchise African American citizens with Jim Crow laws.