He was born James Scott Bumgarner. He was a life long Democrat per this Biography at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001258/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
James Scott Bumgarner was the best!
The fact he was a life long dem, is easily offset with the knowing that “in his day” dems were equally patriotic, although wrong on politics, and were not the same as the America hating socialist progressive dems who are for America’s destruction today.