1980, he was elected chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party, and he served until 1984. After Congress In 1978, President Jimmy Carter named the Columbia, South Carolina, Veteran's Affairs Hospital after Dorn as the "William Jennings Bryan Dorn Veterans' Hospital." Dorn died in Greenwood on August 13, 2005. He was buried at Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery in Callison, Greenwood County, South Carolina. Autobiography Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, and Scott Derks. Dorn: Of the People, A Political Way of Life. Columbia and Orangeburg, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Sandlapper Publishing, 1988 References External links William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words Audio clips from the Papers of William Jennings Bryan Dorn at South Carolina Political Collections* William Jennings Bryan Dorn Papers at the University of South Carolina at South Carolina Political Collections |- 1916 births 2005 deaths People from Greenwood, South Carolina United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina 20th-century American politicians People from Greenwood County, South Carolina United States Army Air Forces non-commissioned officers Old Right (United States)