
In response, Buster Murdaugh dealt with this situation professionally and with dispatch and As the economy picked up, so did the level of sophisticated criminal activity. Whereas, he saw this lowcountry region go through the transition from fishing and farming communities to a region of far more development and business activity.

Whereas, by the time Buster had completed his career as solicitor, he had served in that office for forty-eight years, making him the longest-serving solicitor in the country at that time and After his father died two years later, Buster Murdaugh ran for his father's office and won and He also began giving gratis assistance to his father in his duties as solicitor. Whereas, in preparation for his life's work, Buster Murdaugh earned his law degree at the University of South Carolina and returned to Hampton County in 1938 to practice law. Randy Murdaugh retired in 2005, thus ending the Murdaugh line of solicitors and Whereas, for more than eighty-five years, anyone accused of a crime in the counties of this circuit dealt with one of these Murdaughs: Randolph, Sr., a Hampton attorney elected solicitor in 1920 Randolph, Jr., or "Buster," elected to fill his father's place in 1940 after the senior Randolph was killed in a train wreck and Buster's son, Randolph III, or "Randy," who was elected solicitor in 1986. The son of Randolph and Etta Harvey Murdaugh, Buster became the second representative of a three-generation line of Murdaughs serving as Fourteenth Circuit solicitor and Whereas, Randolph Murdaugh, Jr., affectionately known to his friends and family as Buster, was born in Varnville on January 15, 1915.

Whereas, it is altogether fitting that the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives pause in their deliberations to consider the significant contributions and noteworthy legacy of the Honorable Randolph "Buster" Murdaugh, Jr., solicitor of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit from 1940 to 1986 and TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR THE LIFE AND PUBLIC SERVICE OF THE LATE HONORABLE RANDOLPH "BUSTER" MURDAUGH, JR., SOLICITOR OF THE FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT FROM 1940 TO 1986 AND DISTINGUISHED SON OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

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