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Solomon Blatt Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-SB
Scope and Contents
Public Papers chiefly relate to Blatt’s role as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Barnwell County, 1933-1986, and as Speaker, 1935-1946 and 1951-1973. The series includes general files, a “political file”, recommendations, and topical files. The political file subseries describes a discreet set of papers from 1963-1964 that document a range of political activities, including constituent service, correspondence with other public officials around the state, and...
Dates:
1916-1921, 1933-2016
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Joseph R. Bryson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-JRB
Collection Description
7 linear ft. of papers, 1917 to 1953, chiefly date from 1947 to 1953 and document Bryson‟s congressional service. The records are divided into four series: Public, Personal, Clippings and Photographs.Public Papers:
Public Papers relate to Bryson‟s congressional service and are divided into Legislative Files, Invitations, Press Releases, Speeches, and Voting Record.Legislative files, 1930 to 1953 (mostly 1948 to 1953), include bills introduced by Bryson, related...
Dates:
1917 - 1953
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
John Bolt Culbertson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-JBC
Abstract
John Bolt Culbertson, lawyer and activist, was a "liberal lion" of South Carolina's Upstate for most of the twentieth century, establishing a law practice in which he represented unions, the working class, disabled veterans, African-Americans, and others in need of a voice—many of whom could not afford to pay him. His outspokenness and his political leanings, atypical for South Carolina at that time, resulted in financial setbacks, insults, and even crosses burned on his lawn, but Culbertson...
Dates:
circa 1886 - 2012
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
James Nelson Frierson papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SCL-MS-13219
Dates:
1874-1960
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
John Gary Evans papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-1649
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of approximately 7.5 linear feet of materials (plus two oversized folders) that primarily document the legal and political career of John Gary Evans (JGE). In date, the collection ranges from approximately 1793 to 1940, with the bulk of the papers ranging from 1880 to 1934. The collection is composed primarily of correspondence but also includes a photograph album, newspaper clippings, essays, and materials pertaining to Evans' participation in the Spanish-American...
Dates:
1793 - 1940; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1934
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Means and McFadden families papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-11861
Scope and Contents
Thirty-one letters pertain to the family of John S. Means of Charlotte, N.C., prior to and during the Civil War. John and three of his sons, William N.M., Theophelus, and Joseph D.P. Means, served in various North Carolina regiments, while another son, James P. Means, served in the 19th Mississippi Regiment. William's passionate concern for the safety of his state is well defined in a letter of 4 September 1861 to his sister Rose. Reacting to news of the Union occupation of Wilmington, N.C.,...
Dates:
1851 - 1990
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Milledge Luke Bonham papers
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-0088
Scope and Contents
Chiefly letters and papers of Bonham's military service in the Seminole, Mexican and Civil Wars, and his public service governor and railroad commissioner, including family correspondence, genealogical information, and an unpublished biography of Milledge Lipscomb Bonham, Jr.
Topics discussed include the Aztec Club of 1847, African Americans and slavery, Clariosophic Society of South Carolina College, the Whig Party, Secession, Reconstruction, politics at state, national, and international...
Dates:
1771 - 1940
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
Edward Patterson “Ted” Riley Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-EPR
Abstract
Ted Riley served as Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of South Carolina, 1933-1952, with an interlude of service in the Navy during World War II. In 1953, he became the Greenville County Attorney. Always active in Democratic Party politics, Riley chaired the Greenville County Democratic Party Executive Committee, 1954-1955, and the South Carolina Democratic Party for two terms, 1960-1964. Riley played an important role in John F. Kennedy's 1960 Presidential election. Riley...
Dates:
1923-1979
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Richard W. Riley Papers
Collection
Identifier: SCU-SCPC-RWR
Scope and Contents
The collection series include Public, Personal, Speeches and Media, Audiovisual, and Clippings.
Public papers include those from Riley’s service as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1963 to 1967) and the South Carolina Senate (1967 to 1977), as Governor (1979 to 1987), and as Secretary of Education (1993 to 2001). Riley’s House papers include documentation of Greenville County issues, as well as a quantity of material on the...
Dates:
c. 1898 - 2018
Found in:
South Carolina Political Collections
Thomas E. Richardson collection
Collection
Identifier: SCL-MS-0002
Scope and Contents
The manuscript collection of Thomas Eveleigh Richardson (1847-1933), relates primarily to the history of Sumter County, South Carolina. More generally, it pertains to the region east of the Wateree River. Because old Sumter District covered territory beyond the present county limits and its people had social ties in Camden and elsewhere, researchers interested in Kershaw, Lee, and Clarendon counties will find pockets of
information on those areas. The manuscripts cover a period of nearly two...
Dates:
1683 - 1933
Found in:
South Caroliniana Library
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