Question: The gubernatorial candidate who defeated W. J. Bryan Dorn was the first candidate from what party to be elected since the 1800s?

Related documents: [0]  [DOC] The 1974 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 1974 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina. James B. Edwards defeated W. J. Bryan Dorn and became the first Republican since Daniel Henry Chamberlain in 1874 to win a gubernatorial election in South Carolina. It was also the closest gubernatorial election in South Carolina since the disputed election of 1876. [END] 
[1]  [DOC] James Burrows Edwards (June 24, 1927 – December 26, 2014) was an American politician and administrator from South Carolina. He was the first Republican to be elected the Governor of South Carolina since the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the 1800s. [END]  
Answer: Republican
Republican