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James J. Hardy

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James J. Hardy was an African-American member of the South Carolina legislature from 1870 to 1871. His son Walter S. E. Hardy became a doctor. He applied to the University of Tennessee in 1939. Dr. Walter Hardy Memorial Park and the Dr. Walter S. E. Hardy Scholarship are named for him.

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