J. Clator Arrants
American politician
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James Clator Arrants was a politician from South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives, the U.S. Navy, returned to the state house, served in the South Carolina Senate, and was appointed a family court judge.
He was from Kershaw, South Carolina.[1] He served in the state senate from 1951 until 1954.[2]
He ran for lieutenant governor in 1954 and attacked his Democratic Party primary opponent Ernest F. Hollings as an integrationist.[3] Hollings went on to win with two-thirds of the vote.[3]
In 1966, he was chosen to chair a joint House-Senate committee formed to study state election laws.[4] He served in the House until at least 1968.[5]
He died in 1989.[6]