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South Carolina: State Senate

Members of the South Carolina State Senate, 1776-2016 (May be incomplete!)

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1778: Adam McDonald, elected, but died before taking office.
  • 1788 Mar 18: Isaac Legare, died in office.
  • 1780: Richard Richardson, died in office.
  • 1782: John Neufville, defeated; Josiah Smith, Jr., defeated.
  • 1783 Feb 11: Nicholas Eveleigh, elected, but did not serve.
  • 1783 Mar 11: Thomas Hughes, elected, but did not serve.
  • 1794 Aug 28: James McCauley, died in office.
  • 1804 Dec 6: John Gaillard, resigned.
  • 1813 Dec 8: James Burchill Richardson, resigned.
  • 1810 Jul 2: John Blake, died in office.
  • 1832 Apr 25: Catlet Connor, died in office.
  • 1833 Dec 5: Andrew P. Butler, resigned.
  • 1830 Aug 29: Robert Clendenin, died in office.
  • 1843: John Speed Jeter, resigned.
  • 1854 Apr 23: Thomas W. Huey, died in office.
  • 1852 Dec 9: John L. Manning, resigned.
  • 1853 Feb 17: Nathan Lipscomb Griffin, died in office.
  • 1859 Dec 3: James Parsons Carroll, resigned.
  • 1857 Feb 26: Nicholas Adamson Peay, died in office.
  • 1861 Oct 10: Richard Irvine Manning, died in office.
  • 1865 Nov 4: John L. Manning, resigned.
  • 1868 Sep 19: B. F. Whittemore, resigned.
  • 1863 Apr 29: Arthur Simkins, died in office.
  • 1868 Sep 7: James M. Rutland, resigned.
  • 1868 Oct 16: Benjamin F. Randolph, died in office.
  • 1869 Jan 11: T. J. Coghlan, resigned.
  • 1870: Hutson J. Lomax, elected, but died before taking office.
  • 1876 Apr 28: Jeremiah Hollinshead, died in office.
  • 1879 Dec 23: Andrew Pickens Butler, resigned.
  • 1877 Feb 14: Jones M. Williams, died in office.
  • 1875 Mar 26: Robert Smalls, resigned.
  • 1870 Nov 10: William H. Mishaw, elected, but died before taking office.
  • 1877 Oct 15: Samuel Eden Gaillard, resigned.
  • 1872 Oct 17: Lucius Wimbush, died in office.
  • 1877 Jun 9: B. F. Whittemore, resigned.
  • 1873 Aug 10: Sanders Ford, died in office.
  • 1870 Nov 28: Joseph H. Rainey, resigned.
  • 1870 Oct 1: Henry Buck, died in office.
  • 1875 Mar 24: Thomas C. Dunn, resigned.
  • 1877: Albert Clinton, resigned.
  • 1877 Oct 12: Henry C. Corwin, resigned.
  • 1871: George W. Sturgeon, elected, but never took office.
  • 1871 Nov 26: Joseph A. Greene, died in office.
  • 1873 Jul 2: James L. Jamison, died in office.
  • 1877: William E. Johnston, resigned.
  • 1878 Dec 13: Thomas Boone Fraser, resigned.
  • 1872 Oct 13: Hiram W. Duncan, died in office.
  • 1877 Nov 27: Stephen A. Swails, resigned.
  • 1879 Jun 24: Samuel Wesley Maurice, died in office.
  • 1884 Apr 10: Hamilton Robinson, died in office.
  • 1886: Edward James Dennis, defeated.
  • 1882 Apr 21: William Alexander Walker, died in office.
  • 1880 Jan 4: William L. Buck, died in office.
  • 1885 Dec 24: Rutherford Pressley Todd, resigned.
  • 1889 Dec 24: James F. Izlar, resigned.
  • 1882 Feb 2: Isaac Donnom Witherspoon, resigned.
  • 1896 May 21: Oliver Cromwell Jordan, died in office.
  • 1891: Daniel Paul Sojourner, resigned.
  • 1896: Thomas Talbird, elected.
  • 1890: Edward James Dennis, defeated.
  • 1894: Augustine Thomas Smythe, resigned.
  • 1894: George Frederick von Kolnitz (Dem), defeated in primary.
  • 1906 Sep 5: William E. Johnson, died in office.
  • 1900: Thomas Talbird, elected.
  • 1904 May 24: Edward James Dennis, died in office.
  • 1900: Thomas Frederick Brantley, resigned.
  • 1914 Dec 17: Peter Lawrence Hardin, died in office.
  • 1918 Jan 30: Ashbel Green Brice, died in office.
  • 1914 Nov 2: James David Ackerman, resigned.
  • 1912 Aug 13: W. L. Mauldin, died in office.
  • 1914 Oct 20: Thomas J. Strait, resigned.
  • 1919 Jun 4: William Clifton Hough, died in office.
  • 1914 Feb 27: Thomas Joab Mauldin, resigned. Francis H. Weston, resigned.
  • 1927 Aug 26: John Howard Moore, died in office.
  • 1923 Jan 24: John Henry Johnson, resigned.
  • 1925 Jan 9: James Benjamin) Black, died in office.
  • 1927 Feb 14: Jesse F. Carter, resigned.
  • 1926: John G. Stabler, resigned.
  • 1924 Dec 30: Albert Whitner Todd, died in office.
  • 1927 Mar 5: Richmond Stacy, died in office.
  • 1922 Jan 19: John Hardin Marion, resigned.
  • 1926 Mar 10: Julian Haskell Scarborough, resigned.
  • 1929 Dec 31: Frank Augustus Miller, died in office.
  • 1925 May 27: Ralph Robert Tison, died in office.
  • 1929 Jul 24: Charles DePass Jones, died in office.
  • 1929 Oct 8: Beckham Hilton Clyburn (Dem), elected.
  • 1926 Jan 15: Daniel Ernest Amick, died in office.
  • 1921 Aug 26: Frank Edward Alexander, died in office.
  • 1928 Feb 29: James Emit Beamguard, resigned.
  • 1931 Feb 26: George Benjamin Greene, resigned.
  • 1934: James Burriss Pruitt, elected.
  • 1930 Jul 25: E. J. Dennis, died in office.
  • 1930 Feb 7: William S. Legaré, died in office.
  • 1932: James D. Parler, elected.
  • 1938 Jan 14: Strom Thurmond, resigned.
  • 1933: Fay A. Des Portes, resigned.
  • 1936 Jun 1: William Henry Lightsey, died in office.
  • 1935 Jul 16: Henry Kemper Cooke, died in office.
  • 1933 Jul 10: Robert Muldrow Cooper, Jr., resigned.
  • 1937 Nov 28: Robert Ellison Dennis, died in office.
  • 1938 Jan 19: Lanneau Durant Lide, resigned.
  • 1930 Apr 3: Frank Cook Robinson, resigned.
  • 1936 Jan 2: Joseph Jennings Dorn, died in office.
  • 1930 Feb 7: W. Claude Martin, died in office.
  • 1931 Feb 7: Isaac Johnston Campbell, died in office.
  • 1940 Jan 20: Edward Henry Henderson, resigned.
  • 1942 Apr 21: John Mahon Wise, resigned.
  • 1947 Jan 3: William Townley Redfearn, died in office.
  • 1945 Oct 28: Harry Robinson Hughes, died in office.
  • 1943: Billy Cohen Coleman, resigned.
  • 1940: Charles C. Moore, elected.
  • 1942: Charles C. Moore, resigned.
  • 1940 Mar 8: J. B. Britton, died in office.
  • 1948 Apr 15: Joseph Rodney Moss, resigned.
  • 1950 Sep 29: James Martin Thomas, died in office.
  • 1950 Apr 25: James Burriss Pruitt, resigned.
  • 1952 Dec 24: O. T. Wallace, resigned.
  • 1953 Mar 3: T. Allen Legaré, Jr., elected.
  • 1958 Aug 5: John William Green, elected.
  • 1958 Nov 4: John William Green, elected.
  • 1959 Feb 27: Alex Woodle, resigned.
  • 1955 Jun 29: Frank A. Thompson, died in office.
  • 1955 Nov 8: James P. Stevens, elected.
  • 1951 Jul 17: Henry C. Walker, resigned.
  • 1956 Jan 11: William L. Harrelson, resigned.
  • 1956 Feb 14: J. Ralph Gasque, elected.
  • 1956 Nov 6: J. Ralph Gasque, elected.
  • 1958 Jun 10: Paul A. Wallace, died in office.
  • 1956 May 14: Marvin E. Abrams, resigned.
  • 1950 Jun 14: Thomas Bailey Nalley, died in office.
  • 1951 Dec 25: E. W. Cantwell, resigned.
  • 1956 Sep 1: Leonard G. Mishoe, resigned.
  • 1956 Nov 6: V. G. Arnette, elected.
  • 1967 Jun 19: Wade Stackhouse Weatherford, Jr., resigned.
  • 1967 Jul 31: Charles MacDonald Gibson, resigned.
  • 1967 Dec 12: Raymond Love Gamble, died in office.
  • 1966 Apr 7: Frank Rizer Hartzog, died in office.
  • 1964 Jun 15: Wilbur G. Grant, died in office.
  • 1964 Sep 8: Paul Hemphill, Jr., elected.
  • 1962 Apr 13: James B. Morrison, resigned.
  • 1962 Aug 14: Cecil Claymon Grimes, Jr., elected.
  • 1960 Feb 9: Robert Claude Wasson, resigned.
  • 1960: J. Ralph Gasque, elected.
  • 1966 May 20: Robert W. Hayes, resigned.
  • 1970 Dec 15: Floyd Spence, resigned.
  • 1976 Oct 11: J. Ralph Gasque, resigned.
  • 1974 Dec 6: James B. Edwards, resigned.
  • 1996: Tim Scott (Rep), defeated.
  • 1995 Dec 28: Marshall B. Williams, died in office.
  • 1992 Jan 14: James M. Waddell, Jr., resigned.
  • 2016: Lee Bright, defeated.
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