South Carolina Political Collections

(1926-2022)

Here is Congressman Floyd Spence greeting and the Queen in Statuary Hall at the Capitol at a luncheon Congress hosted in her honor on the occasion of her state visit, July 8th, 1976.

from the 1984 Democratic National Convention

US Secretary of State James F Byrnes enjoys a cup of coffee while he reads the newspaper next to his radio, circa mid-1940s.

Jets land on an aircraft carrier during Naval Air Training in Pensacola, FL,1956.
(from the William D Workman papers)

US Secretary of Education Dick Riley in a classroom, circa 1990s
The Riley Institute at Furman

Future governor George Bell Timmerman served in the U.S. Naval Reserve, Naval Armed Guard, from 1942-1946. While on convoy duty, his ship was torpedoed and he spent three days on a life boat before being rescued. Later, he commanded a rocket launcher ship during the invasion of Okinawa.

An official announcement of Japan’s unconditional surrender to the Allies was made public to the world on August 14, 1945. Here's future governor Bob McNair on shipboard in Luzon, the Philippines, in 1945.

: First Lady Josephine McNair poses for photographer in the governor's mansion, circa late 1960s.

Shortly after midnight in 1961, East German soldiers began laying down barbed wire and bricks as a barrier between Soviet-controlled East Berlin and the democratic western section of the city. Here's Congressman Robert Ashmore & his wife in West Berlin in 1964.

Governor John West (left) plays with Robert Onorato, president of Palmetto Dunes Oceanfront Resort on Hilton Head Island until the late 1980s.