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https://cdn.scencyclopedia.org/sce/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/14141803/Lkirkland.jpg500647Labor leader. Lane Kirkland was born on March 12, 1922, in Camden, to the cotton buyer Randolph Withers Kirkland and Louise Richardson. The family had deep roots in the state. Kirkland’s great-great grandfather Thomas Jefferson Withers was a signer of the Ordinance of Secession and the uncle and legal guardian of Mary Boykin Chesnut, author […]