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**FILE ** Sen. Vern Smith, R-Greer, left shares a laugh with Sen. John Coursen, R-Columbia, and Sen. Hugh Leatherman, R-Florence, Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2005, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. Smith, whose 2001 party switch to the GOP gave Republicans control of the state Senate for the first time since reconstruction, is dead at 81. Smith's son, Jeff, said his father died Sunday morning, Dec. 17, 2006, after a long illness that prevented his bone marrow from fighting infections. (AP Photo/Mary Ann Chastain)

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created date 2005-01-05

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