James Clator Arrants was a politician from South Carolina.
He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives, the U.S. Navy, returned to the state house, served in the South Carolina Senate, and was appointed a family court judge.
[2] He ran for lieutenant governor in 1954 and attacked his Democratic Party primary opponent Ernest F. Hollings as an integrationist.
[3] Hollings went on to win with two-thirds of the vote.
[3] In 1966, he was chosen to chair a joint House-Senate committee formed to study state election laws.