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George McDuffie: 1813 1821–1834 also United States senator and governor of South Carolina [225] John L. McMillan: 1939–1973 [226] Thomas S. McMillan: 1912 1925–1939 [227] John J. McSwain: 1897 1921–1936 [228] Stephen Decatur Miller: 1808 1817–1819 also United States senator and governor of South Carolina [229] George W. Murray: 1893 ...
The Thomas Cooper Library is the university's main library, named for Thomas Cooper (1759 – 1839). The facility opened in 1959 as a dedicated undergraduate library, the first such library in the South. The building was designed by Edward Durell Stone, the designer of the Kennedy Center, and the firm of Lyles, Bissett, Carlisle, and Wolff. The ...
Stephen Born (né Simon Buttermilch; 28 December 1824 – 4 May 1898) was a German typesetter [1] and revolutionary. As a founder of the General German Workers' Brotherhood, he created the first national trade union organization in the German workers' movement. He was born in Lissa, Prussian Province of Posen (Leszno, Poland) in 1824 and moved ...
Toombs helped establish the University of South Carolina's Thomas Cooper Library and Law Library and co-founded the Southeastern Library Network. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He helped establish the South Caroliniana Library by approving Thomas L. Johnson as its first field archivist [ 6 ] and who interviewed Grace Lumpkin for the archive. [ 7 ]
A man photographed fleeing smoke and debris as the south tower of the World Trade Center crumbled just a block away, has died from coronavirus.
This is a list of notable alumni of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Awards received by Cooper Union alumni include one Nobel Prize in Physics, a Pritzker Prize, fifteen Rome Prizes, 26 Guggenheim Fellowships, three MacArthur Fellowships, nine Chrysler Design Awards, three American Institute of Architects Thomas Jefferson Awards for Public Architecture, and one Queen ...
Colbert was 10 years old and living in Charleston, S.C., at the time of the 1974 crash. Now, at 60, he says he has trouble remembering much about his life prior to the accident.
Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a pioneering African-American scholar, excelling in elocution, philosophy, law and classics in the Reconstruction era.He broke ground as Harvard College's first Black graduate in 1870. [1]