Gonzales, Ambrose Elliott

Hoping to give a voice to the conservative wing of the Democratic Party after Ben Tillman’s election to the governorship, Gonzales joined with his brother Ambrose to found the State Publishing Company in January 1891, with the financial backing of conservative Democrats.

(2003 circulation: 114,442 daily and 148,820 Sunday). The State is a morning daily newspaper published weekdays and Sundays in the…

U.S. senator, governor. Tillman was born in Edgefield District on August 11, 1847, to Benjamin and Sophia Tillman. The family…