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Prior to the civil rights movement in South Carolina, African Americans in the state had very few political rights. South Carolina briefly had a majority-black government during the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, but with the 1876 inauguration of Governor Wade Hampton III, a Democrat who supported the disenfranchisement of blacks, African Americans in South Carolina struggled to ...
South Carolina was one of the original Thirteen Colonies and was admitted as a state on May 23, 1788. [1] Before it declared its independence, South Carolina was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain. It seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860, [2] and was a founding member of the Confederate States of America on February 4, 1861. [3]
McNair was governor during the Orangeburg Massacre in 1968, which he blamed on Black Power advocates, and called it a stain on the state's good record in civil rights. In 2006, decades after leaving office, McNair admitted responsibility for the deaths of the three Black civil rights activists killed in Orangeburg.
103rd Governor of South Carolina; In office January 21, 1947 – January 16, 1951 ... due to the latter's support for civil rights. In the 1960 South Carolina Senate ...
William Henry Gist (August 22, 1807 – September 30, 1874) was the 68th Governor of South Carolina from 1858 to 1860 and a leader of the secession movement in South Carolina. [1] He was one of the signers of the Ordinance of Secession on December 20, 1860, which effectively launched the Confederate States of America .
Alonzo J. Ransier – South Carolina 1873–1875 (also South Carolina Lt. Governor and Constitutional Convention) [2] James T. Rapier – Alabama 1873–1875 (also Alabama Constitutional Convention) [2] Robert Smalls – South Carolina 1875–1879, 1882–1887 (also South Carolina Senate, South Carolina House, and Constitutional Convention) [2]
Daniel Henry Chamberlain (June 23, 1835 – April 13, 1907) was an American planter, lawyer, author and the 76th Governor of South Carolina from 1874 until 1876 or 1877. [ a ] The federal government withdrew troops from the state and ended Reconstruction that year.
The Governor of South Carolina is the chief executive of the state. The governor is elected to a four-year term and may serve up to two consecutive terms. The current governor is Republican Henry McMaster who succeeded to the office of Governor of South Carolina when Governor Nikki Haley resigned to become the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.