Andrew Bethea
{{Short description|American politician (1879–1945)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Andrew Jackson Bethea II
|image = Andrew Jackson Bethea II.jpg
|order = 68th
|title = Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina
|governor = Richard Irvine Manning III
|term_start = January 19, 1915
|term_end = January 21, 1919
|predecessor = Charles Aurelius Smith
|successor = Junius T. Liles
|birth_name =
|birth_date = {{birth date|1879|08|17}}
|birth_place = Dillon County, South Carolina, US
|death_date = {{death date and age|1945|12|28|1879|08|17}}
|death_place = Orangeburg, South Carolina, US
|party = Democratic
|spouse = Nellie DeTreville
|children =
|education =
|signature = Signature of Andrew Jackson Bethea II (1879–1945).png
}}
Andrew Jackson Bethea II (August 17, 1879 – December 28, 1945) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 68th lieutenant governor of South Carolina.{{cite web |title=Lieutenant Governors of South Carolina 1730–2021 |url=https://www.scstatehouse.gov/man21/53_FormerLtGovs.pdf |website=scstatehouse.gov |publisher=South Carolina General Assembly |access-date=14 May 2023}}
Biography
Bethea was born in Dillon County, South Carolina and later moved to Columbia to work as an attorney, serving in South Carolina's seventh judicial circuit.{{cite journal |title=Official Congressional Directory |journal=70th Congress, 1st Session |date=1921 |volume=67 |issue=1 |page=113 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=63t16z146LEC&dq=%22Andrew+Bethea%22+lieutenant+governor&pg=PA113|access-date=14 May 2023}} He married Nellie DeTreville Bethea. He was killed in an automobile accident in Orangeburg in 1945.
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Category:Lieutenant governors of South Carolina