William Brantley Harvey, Sr. (June 5, 1893 – March 20, 1981) was an American lawyer and politician. Harvey was the brother of Etta Causey Harvey. She was married to Randolph Murdaugh Sr. (1887-1940) and was mother to Randolph "Buster" Murdaugh Jr. (1915-1998) and great-grandmother to Alex Murdaugh.

Biography

Harvey was born in

Hampton, South Carolina Hampton is a town in Hampton County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 2,808 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Hampton County. The town and the county are named after Wade Hampton III, a Confederate general in the Civil ...

. Harvey served as a medical corpsman in the

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during

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. In 1923, he received his bachelor's and law degrees from University of South Carolina. Harvey practiced law in

Beaufort, South Carolina Beaufort ( , a different pronunciation from that used by the city with the same name in North Carolina) is a city in and the county seat of Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1711, it is the second-oldest city in South ...

. Brantley served in the

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from 1924 to 1928 and in the

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from 1928 to 1952. Harvey died in Beaufort, South Carolina. His son was

W. Brantley Harvey Jr. William Brantley Harvey Jr. (August 14, 1930 – December 12, 2018) was an American lawyer and politician in the state of South Carolina. He was the son of W. Brantley Harvey Sr. (1893–1981), a lawyer in Beaufort, South Carolina and former me ...

, who also served in the

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.'Former lieutenant governor and longtime Beaufort attorney Brantley Harvey dies,' The Island Packet, Stephen Fastenau, December 13, 2018

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