Political party strength in South Carolina
The following table indicates the parties of elected officials in the U.S. state of South Carolina:
- Governor
- Lieutenant Governor
- Secretary of State
- Attorney General
- Treasurer
- Comptroller General
- Superintendent of Education
- Adjutant General (no longer elected after 2014; appointed by governor beginning in 2019)[1]
- Commissioner of Agriculture
The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
- State Senate
- State House of Representatives
- State delegation to the U.S. Senate
- State delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives
Key
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.
Bold indicates present office holders.
The parties are as follows:
- Anti-Administration (AA)
- Anti-Jacksonian (AJ)
- Democratic (D)
- Democratic Nullifier (DN)
- Democratic-Republican (DR)
- Federalist (F)
- Jacksonian (J)
- no party (N)
- Pro-Administration (PA)
- Republican (R)
- Whig (W)
- a tie or coalition within a group of elected officials.
List of political office holders in South Carolina
Year | Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress | Electoral College votes | |||||||||||
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Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Atty. Gen. | Treasurer | Comptroller | Supt. of Ed. | Adj. Gen. | Comm. of Ag. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | ||
1776 | John Rutledge (N)[2][3] | Henry Laurens (N) | [data unknown/missing] | [data unknown/missing] | [data unknown/missing] | [data unknown/missing] | no such office | [data unknown/missing] | no such office[4] | no such office | no such office | no such office | no such office | no such office | no such office |
1777 | James Parsons (N) | ||||||||||||||
1778 | Rawlins Lowndes (N)[2][5] | ||||||||||||||
1779 | John Rutledge (N)[6] | Thomas Bee (N) | |||||||||||||
1780 | Christopher Gadsden (N) | ||||||||||||||
1781 | |||||||||||||||
1782 | John Mathews (N)[6] | Richard Hutson (N) | |||||||||||||
1783 | Benjamin Guerard (N)[6] | Richard Beresford (N) | |||||||||||||
1784 | William Moultrie (N) | ||||||||||||||
1785 | William Moultrie (N)[6] | Charles Drayton (N) | |||||||||||||
1786 | |||||||||||||||
1787 | Thomas Pinckney (F)[6] | Thomas Gadsden (F) | |||||||||||||
1788 | |||||||||||||||
1789 | Charles Pinckney (F)[6] | Alexander Gillon (F) | [data unknown/missing] | [data unknown/missing] | Pierce Butler (PA) | Ralph Izard (PA) | 3AA, 2PA | George Washington (N) | |||||||
1790 | |||||||||||||||
1791 | Isaac Holmes (F) | 3PA, 2AA | |||||||||||||
1792 | William Moultrie (F) | James Ladson (F) | |||||||||||||
1793 | Pierce Butler (AA) | 5AA, 1PA | George Washington (N) | ||||||||||||
1794 | Arnoldus Vanderhorst (F) | Lewis Morris (F) | 4AA, 2PA | ||||||||||||
1795 | Jacob Read (F) | 4DR, 2AA | |||||||||||||
1796 | Charles Pinckney (DR) | Robert Anderson (DR) | |||||||||||||
1797 | John Hunter (DR) | 3DR, 3F | Thomas Jefferson (DR) | ||||||||||||
1798 | Edward Rutledge (F)[7] | John Drayton (DR) | |||||||||||||
1799 | Charles Pinckney (DR) | 5F, 1DR | |||||||||||||
1800 | John Drayton (DR) | Richard Winn (DR) | |||||||||||||
1801 | John E. Colhoun (DR) | 3DR, 3F | Thomas Jefferson (DR) | ||||||||||||
1802 | James Burchill Richardson (DR) | Ezekiel Pickens (DR) | Thomas Sumter (DR) | ||||||||||||
1803 | Pierce Butler (DR) | 6DR, 2F | |||||||||||||
1804 | Paul Hamilton (DR) | Thomas Sumter, Jr. (DR) | |||||||||||||
1805 | John Gaillard (DR) | 8DR | Thomas Jefferson and George Clinton (DR) | ||||||||||||
1806 | Charles Pinckney (DR) | John Hopkins (DR) | |||||||||||||
1807 | Stephen Lee, Jr. | ||||||||||||||
1808 | John Drayton (DR) | Frederick Nance (DR) | |||||||||||||
1809 | [data unknown/missing] | James Madison and George Clinton (DR) | |||||||||||||
1810 | Henry Middleton (DR) | Samuel Farrow (DR) | |||||||||||||
1811 | John Taylor (DR) | ||||||||||||||
1812 | Joseph Alston (DR) | Eldred Simkins (DR) | |||||||||||||
1813 | 9DR | James Madison and Elbridge Gerry (DR) | |||||||||||||
1814 | David Rogerson Williams (DR) | Robert Creswell (DR) | |||||||||||||
1815 | J. G. Brown | 8DR, 1F | |||||||||||||
1816 | Andrew Pickens (DR) | John A. Cuthbert (DR) | |||||||||||||
1817 | [data unknown/missing] | John S. Richardson | Robert Creswell | William Smith (DR) | 9DR | James Monroe and Daniel Tompkins (DR) | |||||||||
1818 | John Geddes (DR) | William Youngblood (DR) | |||||||||||||
1819 | Beaufort T. Watts | [data unknown/missing] | John S. Cogdell | ||||||||||||
1820 | Thomas Bennett, Jr. (DR) | William Pinckney (DR) | |||||||||||||
1821 | [data unknown/missing] | James Monroe and Daniel Tompkins (DR) | |||||||||||||
1822 | John Lyde Wilson (DR) | Henry Bradley (DR) | |||||||||||||
1823 | William Laval | James L. Pettigru | [data unknown/missing] | Robert Y. Hayne (DR) | |||||||||||
1824 | Richard Irvine Manning I (DR) | William A. Bull (DR) | |||||||||||||
1825 | [data unknown/missing] | [data unknown/missing] | Robert Y. Hayne (J) | John Gaillard (J) | 9J | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (DR) | |||||||||
1826 | John Taylor (DR) | James Witherspoon (DR) | William Harper (J) | ||||||||||||
1827 | William Smith (J) | ||||||||||||||
1828 | Stephen Decatur Miller (DN) | Thomas Williams (D) | |||||||||||||
1829 | Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun (D) | ||||||||||||||
1830 | James Hamilton, Jr. (DN) | Patrick Noble (D) | |||||||||||||
1831 | Robert Y. Hayne (DN) | Stephen Decatur Miller (DN) | 6J, 3DN | ||||||||||||
1832 | Robert Young Hayne (DN) | Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (D) | |||||||||||||
1833 | John C. Calhoun (DN) | vacant | 7DN, 2J | John Floyd and Henry Lee (DN) | |||||||||||
1834 | George McDuffie (DN) | Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook (D) | William C. Preston (DN) | 8DN, 1J | |||||||||||
1835 | 6DN, 2J, 1AJ | ||||||||||||||
1836 | Pierce Mason Butler (D) | William DuBose (D) | |||||||||||||
1837 | John C. Calhoun (D) | William C. Preston (W) | 5DN, 3D, 1W | Willie Mangum and John Tyler (W) | |||||||||||
1838 | Patrick Noble (D)[7] | Barnabas K. Henagan (D) | |||||||||||||
1839 | 8D, 1W | ||||||||||||||
1840 | Barnabas K. Henagan (D)[8] | vacant | |||||||||||||
1841 | John Peter Richardson II (D) | W. K. Clowney (D) | Martin Van Buren (D) | ||||||||||||
1842 | James Henry Hammond (D) | Isaac Donnom Witherspoon (D) | |||||||||||||
1843 | Daniel Elliott Huger (D) | George McDuffie (D) | 7D | ||||||||||||
1844 | William Aiken, Jr. (D) | J.F. Ervin (D) | |||||||||||||
1845 | John C. Calhoun (D) | James K. Polk and George M. Dallas (D) | |||||||||||||
1846 | David Johnson (D) | William Cain (D) | |||||||||||||
1847 | Andrew Butler (D) | ||||||||||||||
1848 | Whitemarsh Benjamin Seabrook (D) | William Henry Gist (D) | |||||||||||||
1849 | Lewis Cass and William O. Butler (D) | ||||||||||||||
1850 | John Hugh Means (D) | Joshua John Ward (D) | Franklin H. Elmore (D) | ||||||||||||
Robert W. Barnwell (D) | |||||||||||||||
1851 | Robert Rhett (D) | ||||||||||||||
1852 | John Lawrence Manning (D) | James Irby (D) | William F. De Saussure (D) | ||||||||||||
1853 | Josiah J. Evans (D) | 6D | Franklin Pierce and William R. King (D) | ||||||||||||
1854 | James Hopkins Adams (D) | Richard de Treville (D) | |||||||||||||
1855 | |||||||||||||||
1856 | Robert Francis Withers Allston (D) | Gabriel Cannon (D) | |||||||||||||
1857 | vacant | James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridge (D) | |||||||||||||
1858 | William Henry Gist (D) | M. E. Carn (D) | Arthur P. Hayne (D) | James Henry Hammond (D) | |||||||||||
1859 | James Chesnut, Jr. (D) | ||||||||||||||
1860 | Francis Wilkinson Pickens (D) | W.W. Harllee (D) | |||||||||||||
1861 | vacant | vacant | vacant | John C. Breckinridge and Joseph Lane (D) | |||||||||||
1862 | Milledge Luke Bonham (D) | Plowden Weston (D) | |||||||||||||
1863 | |||||||||||||||
1864 | Andrew Gordon Magrath (D)[9] | Robert McCaw (D) | |||||||||||||
1865 | Benjamin Franklin Perry (D)[10] | vacant | 31N | 124N | ineligible to participate | ||||||||||
1866 | James Lawrence Orr (N)[11] | W.D. Porter (N) | |||||||||||||
1867 | |||||||||||||||
1868 | Robert Kingston Scott (R) | Lemuel Boozer (R) | Justus K. Jillson | Thomas J. Robertson (R) | Frederick A. Sawyer (R) | 4R | |||||||||
1869 | 25R, 6D | 110R, 14D | Ulysses S. Grant and Schuyler Colfax (R) | ||||||||||||
1870 | Alonzo J. Ransier (R) | ||||||||||||||
1871 | 26R, 5D | 100R, 24D | |||||||||||||
1872 | Franklin J. Moses, Jr. (R) | Richard Howell Gleaves (R) | |||||||||||||
1873 | 25R, 8D | 101R, 23D | John J. Patterson (R) | 5R | Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (R) | ||||||||||
1874 | Daniel Henry Chamberlain (R)[12] | ||||||||||||||
1875 | 26R, 7C | 91R, 33C | |||||||||||||
1876 | Wade Hampton III (D)[3] | William Dunlap Simpson (D) | John R. Tolbert | ||||||||||||
1877 | Hugh S. Thompson | 18R, 15D | 65D, 59R | Matthew Butler (D) | 3R, 2D | Rutherford B. Hayes and William A. Wheeler (R) | |||||||||
1878 | |||||||||||||||
1879 | William Dunlap Simpson (D)[8] | vacant | 28D, 5R | 121D, 3R | Wade Hampton III (D) | 5D | |||||||||
1880 | Thomas Bothwell Jeter (D) | A.P. Butler (D) | |||||||||||||
1881 | Johnson Hagood (D) | John D. Kennedy (D) | 33D, 2R | 120D, 4R | Winfield Hancock and William English (D) | ||||||||||
1882 | Hugh S. Thompson (D)[3] | John Calhoun Sheppard (D) | Asbury Coward | 3D, 2R | |||||||||||
1883 | 118D, 6R | 6D, 1R | |||||||||||||
1884 | |||||||||||||||
1885 | 32D, 3R | 119D, 5R | Grover Cleveland and Thomas A. Hendricks (D) | ||||||||||||
1886 | John Calhoun Sheppard (D)[8] | vacant | James H. Rice | ||||||||||||
1887 | John Peter Richardson III (D) | William Mauldin (D) | 33D, 2R | 120D, 4R | 7D | ||||||||||
1888 | |||||||||||||||
1889 | 35D | 121D, 3R | 6D, 1R | Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman (D) | |||||||||||
1890 | Benjamin Ryan Tillman (D) | Eugene Gary (D) | W. D. Mayfield | ||||||||||||
1891 | Mr. Moore (D) | 32D, 3R | 115D, 9R | John L. M. Irby (D) | 7D | ||||||||||
1892 | no such office[13] | ||||||||||||||
1893 | W.H. Timmerman (D) | 36D | 120D, 4R | 6D, 1R | Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson (D) | ||||||||||
1894 | John Gary Evans (D) | ||||||||||||||
1895 | 29D, 7ID | 104D, 17ID, 3R | Benjamin Tillman (D) | 7D | |||||||||||
1896 | 6D, 1R | ||||||||||||||
1897 | William Haselden Ellerbe (D)[7] | Miles Benjamin McSweeney (D) | 36D | 123D, 1R | Joseph H. Earle (D) | 7D | William Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D) | ||||||||
1898 | John J. McMahan | John L. McLaurin (D) | |||||||||||||
1899 | Miles Benjamin McSweeney (D) | Robert B. Scarborough (D) | 41D | ||||||||||||
1900 | |||||||||||||||
1901 | James Tillman (D) | William Bryan and Arthur Sewall (D) | |||||||||||||
1902 | Oscar B. Martin | ||||||||||||||
1903 | Duncan Clinch Heyward (D) | John Sloan (D) | J.T. Gantt (D) | John D. Frost | 124D | Asbury Latimer (D) | |||||||||
1904 | E.J. Watson (D) | ||||||||||||||
1905 | Alton B. Parker and Henry G. Davis (D) | ||||||||||||||
1906 | |||||||||||||||
1907 | Martin Frederick Ansel (D) | Thomas Gordon McLeod (D) | R.M. McCown (D) | John C. Boyd | |||||||||||
1908 | John E. Swearingen | Frank B. Gary (D) | |||||||||||||
1909 | Ellison D. Smith (D) | William Bryan and John W. Kern (D) | |||||||||||||
1910 | William W. Moore | ||||||||||||||
1911 | Coleman Livingston Blease (D)[3] | Charles Aurelius Smith (D) | 44D | ||||||||||||
1912 | |||||||||||||||
1913 | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) | ||||||||||||||
1914 | |||||||||||||||
1915 | Charles Aurelius Smith (D)[8] | vacant | |||||||||||||
1916 | Richard Irvine Manning III (D) | Andrew Bethea (D) | |||||||||||||
1917 | W. Banks Dove (D)[7] | Woodrow Wilson and Thomas R. Marshall (D) | |||||||||||||
1918 | A.C. Summers (D) | Christie Benet (D) | |||||||||||||
William P. Pollock (D) | |||||||||||||||
1919 | Robert Archer Cooper (D)[3] | J.T. Liles (D) | Bonneau Harris (D) | 46D | Nathaniel B. Dial (D) | ||||||||||
1920 | |||||||||||||||
1921 | Wilson Godfrey Harvey (D) | Rufus W. Grant | James M. Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) | ||||||||||||
1922 | Wilson Godfrey Harvey (D)[8] | vacant | James H. Hope | ||||||||||||
1923 | Thomas Gordon McLeod (D) | E.B. Jackson (D) | Robert E. Craig | ||||||||||||
1924 | W.P. Blackwell (D)[7] | ||||||||||||||
1925 | John M. Daniel (D) | Coleman Livingston Blease (D) | John W. Davis and Charles W. Bryan (D) | ||||||||||||
1926 | James C. Dozier | James W. Shealy (D) | |||||||||||||
1927 | John Gardiner Richards, Jr. (D) | Thomas Bothwell Butler (D) | |||||||||||||
1928 | |||||||||||||||
1929 | Al Smith and Joseph T. Robinson (D) | ||||||||||||||
1930 | |||||||||||||||
1931 | Ibra Charles Blackwood (D) | James Sheppard (D) | James F. Byrnes (D) | ||||||||||||
1932 | |||||||||||||||
1933 | J. Roy Jones (D) | 6D | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Garner (D) | ||||||||||||
1934 | |||||||||||||||
1935 | Olin D. Johnston (D) | Joseph Emile Harley (D) | |||||||||||||
1936 | |||||||||||||||
1937 | Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Garner (D) | ||||||||||||||
1938 | |||||||||||||||
1939 | Burnett R. Maybank (D)[3] | ||||||||||||||
1940 | |||||||||||||||
1941 | Joseph Emile Harley (D)[8][7] | vacant | Alva M. Lumpkin (D) | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace (D) | |||||||||||
Roger C. Peace (D) | |||||||||||||||
1942 | Richard Manning Jefferies (D)[8] | Burnet R. Maybank (D) | |||||||||||||
1943 | Olin D. Johnston (D)[3] | Ransome Judson Williams (D) | |||||||||||||
1944 | Wilton E. Hall (D) | ||||||||||||||
1945 | Ransome Judson Williams (D)[8] | vacant | Olin D. Johnson (D) | Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S Truman (D) | |||||||||||
1946 | |||||||||||||||
1947 | Strom Thurmond (D) | George Bell Timmerman, Jr. (D) | Jesse T. Anderson | ||||||||||||
1948 | |||||||||||||||
1949 | Strom Thurmond and Fielding L. Wright (Dix) | ||||||||||||||
1950 | P.T. Bradham (D)[8] | ||||||||||||||
1951 | James F. Byrnes (D) | O. Frank Thornton (D) | T.C. Callison (D) | ||||||||||||
1952 | |||||||||||||||
1953 | Adlai Stevenson II and John Sparkman (D) | ||||||||||||||
1954 | Charles E. Daniel (D) | ||||||||||||||
Strom Thurmond (D) | |||||||||||||||
1955 | George Bell Timmerman, Jr. (D) | Fritz Hollings (D) | |||||||||||||
1956 | William L. Harrelson (D) | Thomas A. Wofford (D) | |||||||||||||
1957 | Strom Thurmond (D) | Adlai Stevenson II and Estes Kefauver (D) | |||||||||||||
1958 | |||||||||||||||
1959 | Fritz Hollings (D) | Burnet Maybank, Jr. (D) | Daniel R. McLeod (D) | Frank D. Pinkney | |||||||||||
1960 | |||||||||||||||
1961 | John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson (D) | ||||||||||||||
1962 | 123D, 1R[14] | ||||||||||||||
1963 | Donald S. Russell (D)[3] | Robert Evander McNair (D) | 124D | ||||||||||||
1964 | Strom Thurmond (R) | ||||||||||||||
1965 | Robert Evander McNair (D) | vacant | Jefferson Bates[7] | 123D, 1R | 5D, 1R | Barry Goldwater and William E. Miller (R) | |||||||||
1966 | Grady Patterson (D)[15] | Donald S. Russell (D) | |||||||||||||
1967 | John C. West (D) | J. Henry Mills (D) | Cyril B. Busbee | 43D, 6R, 1I | 107D, 17R | Fritz Hollings (D) | |||||||||
1968 | |||||||||||||||
1969 | 47D, 3R | 119D, 5R | Richard M. Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew (R) | ||||||||||||
1970 | |||||||||||||||
1971 | John C. West (D) | Earle Morris, Jr. (D) | Robert L. McCrady (D) | 44D, 2R | 113D, 11R | ||||||||||
1972 | |||||||||||||||
1973 | 43D, 3R | 103D, 21R | 4D, 2R | ||||||||||||
1974 | |||||||||||||||
1975 | James B. Edwards (R) | W. Brantley Harvey, Jr. (D) | 108D, 16R | 5D, 1R | |||||||||||
1976 | |||||||||||||||
Earle Morris, Jr. (D) | |||||||||||||||
1977 | G. Bryan Patrick (R) | 42D, 4R | 112D, 12R | Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale (D) | |||||||||||
1978 | |||||||||||||||
1979 | Richard Riley (D) | Nancy Stevenson (D) | John Tucker Campbell (D) | Charlie G. Williams (D) | T. Eston Marchant (D) | 108D, 16R | 4D, 2R | ||||||||
1980 | |||||||||||||||
1981 | 39D, 7R | 4R, 2D | Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush (R) | ||||||||||||
1982 | |||||||||||||||
1983 | Michael R. Daniel (D) | T. Travis Medlock (D) | Les Tindal (D) | 105D, 19R | 3D, 3R | ||||||||||
1984 | |||||||||||||||
1985 | 36D, 10R | 96D, 28R | |||||||||||||
1986 | |||||||||||||||
1987 | Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. (R) | Nick Theodore (D) | 92D, 32R | 4D, 2R | |||||||||||
1988 | |||||||||||||||
1989 | 35D, 11R | 88D, 36R | George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | ||||||||||||
1990 | |||||||||||||||
Les Tindal (R) | |||||||||||||||
1991 | Jim Miles (R) | Barbara Nielsen (R) | 80D, 44R | ||||||||||||
1992 | |||||||||||||||
1993 | 30D, 16R | 74D, 50R | 3D, 3R | George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle (R) | |||||||||||
1994 | |||||||||||||||
1995 | David Beasley (R) | Bob Peeler (R) | Charlie Condon (R) | Richard Eckstrom (R) | Stan Spears (D) | 26D, 20R | 70R, 54D | 4R, 2D | |||||||
Stan Spears (R) | |||||||||||||||
1996 | |||||||||||||||
1997 | 25D, 21R | 71R, 53D | Bob Dole and Jack Kemp (R) | ||||||||||||
1998 | |||||||||||||||
1999 | Jim Hodges (D) | Grady Patterson (D) | Jim Lander (D) | Inez Tenenbaum (D) | 67R, 57D | ||||||||||
2000 | |||||||||||||||
2001 | 25R, 21D | 71R, 53D | George W. Bush and Dick Cheney (R) | ||||||||||||
2002 | |||||||||||||||
2003 | Mark Sanford (R) | André Bauer (R) | Mark Hammond (R) | Henry McMaster (R) | Richard Eckstrom (R) | Charles Sharpe (R) | 26R, 20D | 73R, 51D | Lindsey Graham (R) | ||||||
2004 | |||||||||||||||
Hugh Weathers (R) | |||||||||||||||
2005 | 74R, 50D | Jim DeMint (R) | |||||||||||||
2006 | |||||||||||||||
2007 | Thomas Ravenel (R)[3] | Jim Rex (D) | 73R, 51D | ||||||||||||
Ken Wingate (R)[16] | 26R, 19D | ||||||||||||||
Converse Chellis (R)[17] | 27R, 19D | ||||||||||||||
2008 | |||||||||||||||
2009 | John McCain and Sarah Palin (R) | ||||||||||||||
2010 | |||||||||||||||
2011 | Nikki Haley (R)[18] | Ken Ard (R) | Alan Wilson (R) | Curtis Loftis (R) | Mick Zais (R) | Robert Livingston (R)[19] | 76R, 48D | 5R, 1D | |||||||
2012 | |||||||||||||||
Glenn F. McConnell (R) [3] | |||||||||||||||
2013 | 28R, 18D | 78R, 46D | Tim Scott (R) | 6R, 1D | Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan (R) | ||||||||||
2014 | |||||||||||||||
Yancey McGill (D) | |||||||||||||||
2015 | Henry McMaster (R) | Molly M. Spearman (R) | 28R, 17D 1V[20] | ||||||||||||
2016 | 28R, 18D[21] | ||||||||||||||
2017 | Henry McMaster (R) | Kevin L. Bryant (R) | 80R, 44D | Donald Trump and Mike Pence | |||||||||||
2018 | |||||||||||||||
2019 | Pamela Evette (R) | Appointed by governor[22] | 27R, 19D | 5R, 2D | |||||||||||
2020 | |||||||||||||||
2021 | 30R, 16D | 81R, 43D | 6R, 1D | Donald Trump and Mike Pence | |||||||||||
Year | Governor | Lt. Governor | Sec. of State | Atty. Gen. | Treasurer | Comptroller | Supt. of Ed. | Adj. Gen. | Comm. of Ag. | State Senate | State House | U.S. Senator (Class II) | U.S. Senator (Class III) | U.S. House | Electoral College votes |
Executive offices | State Legislature | United States Congress |
See also
Notes
- "South Carolina Adjutant General". BallotPedia. Retrieved January 16, 2018.
- President under the Articles of Confederation chosen by the General Assembly.
- Resigned.
- The Department of Agriculture was established in 1879. Subcommittee Study of the Department of Agriculture (July 28, 2017), pg. 9.
- Imprisoned by British during American Revolution.
- Governor under the Articles of Confederation chosen by the General Assembly.
- Died in office.
- Not elected.
- Deposed by the Union Army.
- Appointed by President Andrew Johnson.
- First popularly elected Governor.
- Claimed governorship following 1876 election.
- Responsibilities originally housed at the Department of Agriculture were transferred to other state agencies from 1891–1904.
- Charles Boineau was elected in Richmond County in a special election as the first Republican to win election to the House since 1900.
- First elected in a special election.
- Appointed on an interim basis by Governor Mark Sanford.
- Elected by state legislature to fill vacancy.
- Resigned January 24, 2017 upon confirmation as United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- Last elected Adjutant General, retired on January 17, 2019.
- State Senator Clementa C. Pinckney was assassinated in June 2015.
- Margie Bright Matthews succeeded Pinckney.
- Adjutant General becomes an appointed position in 2019.
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