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Writers from Greenville, South Carolina (27 P) Pages in category "People from Greenville, South Carolina" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total.
State flag of South Carolina Location of South Carolina in the U.S. map The following is a list of prominent people who were born in the U.S. state of South Carolina, lived in South Carolina, or for whom South Carolina is a significant part of their identity. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with ...
Lindsey Graham, U.S. Senator, South Carolina (1999) Trey Gowdy, U.S. Representative, South Carolina, 4th District (2017) Mordecai Ham, evangelist and prohibitionist (1935) Jesse Helms, U.S. Senator, North Carolina (1976) Richmond Pearson Hobson, admiral, congressman from Georgia, Medal of Honor recipient, temperance crusader (1935)
Richard Pearis was born in Ireland in 1725, the son of George and Sarah Pearis, who were Presbyterians of considerable affluence. [1] The family immigrated to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia when Richard was ten, and by 1750, Richard owned 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) of land near Winchester, where he lived with his wife Rhoda and three children.
The flag was removed from the statehouse grounds in 2015. Under his watch, the state adopted the Martin Luther King holiday. As speaker, Wilkins also played a role in banning video gambling from South Carolina and in delaying the establishment of the South Carolina Education Lottery. During the economic recession of the 1990s, Wilkins ...
Crowned Miss Teen South Carolina, Upton, then 18, was competing for Miss Teen USA when she infamously stumbled through the pageant's Q&A segment. ... But I never let anybody see that stuff, except ...
The first time I visited Greenville, South Carolina, I was shocked in the best way possible. As someone who had traveled the US extensively, I didn't expect to find a perfect blend of Southern ...
Greenville News obituary, October 25, 2000. Alan Ehrenhalt, The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office (New York: Random House, 1991), 97-98, 102. K. Michael Prince, Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! South Carolina and the Confederate Flag (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004), 200-01.