The Political Graveyard: South Carolina: U.S. Senators

South Carolina: U.S. Senators

U.S. Senators from South Carolina, 1789-2008 (May be incomplete!)
Pierce Butler 1789-96 Ralph Izard 1789-95 Jacob Read 1795-1801 John Hunter 1796-98 Charles Pinckney 1798-1801 John Ewing Colhoun 1801-02 Thomas Sumter 1801-10 Pierce Butler 1802-04 John Gaillard 1804-26 John Taylor 1810-16 William Smith 1816-23 Robert Y. Hayne 1823-32 William Harper 1826 William Smith 1826-31 Stephen Decatur Miller 1831-33 John C. Calhoun 1832-43 William Campbell Preston 1833-42 George McDuffie 1842-46 Daniel Elliott Huger 1843-47 John C. Calhoun 1845-50 Andrew Pickens Butler 1846-57 Franklin Harper Elmore 1850 Robert Woodward Barnwell 1850 Robert Barnwell Rhett 1850-52 William Ford DeSaussure 1851-53 Josiah James Evans 1853-58 James Henry Hammond 1857-60 Arthur Peronneau Hayne 1858 James Chesnut, Jr. 1858-60 Thomas J. Robertson 1868-77 Frederick A. Sawyer 1868-73 John J. Patterson 1873-79 Matthew C. Butler 1877-95 Wade Hampton 1879-91 John L. M. Irby 1891-97 Benjamin R. Tillman 1895-1918 Joseph H. Earle 1897 John L. McLaurin 1897-1903 Asbury C. Latimer 1903-08 Frank B. Gary 1908-09 Ellison D. Smith 1909-44 Christie Benet 1918 William P. Pollock 1918-19 Nathaniel B. Dial 1919-25 Coleman L. Blease 1925-31 James F. Byrnes 1931-41 Alva M. Lumpkin 1941 Roger C. Peace 1941 Burnet R. Maybank 1941-54 Wilton E. Hall 1944-45 Olin D. Johnston 1945-65 Charles Ezra Daniel 1954 Strom Thurmond 1954-56 Thomas A. Wofford 1956 Strom Thurmond 1956- Donald Stuart Russell 1965-66 Ernest F. Hollings 1966-2005 Lindsey O. Graham 2003-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1802 Oct 26: John Ewing Colhoun, died in office.

1826 Feb 28: John Gaillard, died in office.

1842 Nov 29: William Campbell Preston, resigned.

1850 Mar 31: John C. Calhoun, died in office.

1850 May 29: Franklin Harper Elmore, died in office.

1857 May 25: Andrew Pickens Butler, died in office.

1858: Josiah James Evans, died in office.

1897 May 20: Joseph H. Earle, died in office.

1908 Feb 20: Asbury C. Latimer, died in office.

1914 Nov 3: Ellison D. Smith (Dem), elected unopposed.

1918 Jul 3: Benjamin R. Tillman, died in office.

1918 Nov 5: Nathaniel B. Dial (Dem), elected unopposed.

1918 Nov 5: William P. Pollock (Dem), elected unopposed.

1920 Nov 2: Ellison D. Smith (Dem), elected unopposed.

1924: Nathaniel B. Dial (Dem), defeated for nomination; James F. Byrnes (Dem), defeated for nomination.

1924 Nov 4: Coleman L. Blease (Dem), elected unopposed.

1926: Edgar A. Brown, defeated for nomination.

1930 Nov 4: James F. Byrnes (Dem), elected unopposed.

1938: Edgar A. Brown, defeated for nomination.

1938 Nov 8: Ellison D. Smith (Dem), elected; J. D. E. Meyer (Rep), defeated.

1941 Aug 1: Alva M. Lumpkin, died in office.

1942 Aug 25: Eugene S. Blease (Dem), defeated in primary.

1942 Nov 3: Burnet R. Maybank (Dem), elected unopposed.

1944: Ellison D. Smith, died in office.

1948: W. J. Bryan Dorn, defeated for nomination.

1950 Nov 7: Olin D. Johnston (Dem), elected unopposed.

1954 Sep 1: Burnet R. Maybank, died in office.

1965 Apr 18: Olin D. Johnston, died in office.

1966 Nov 8: Strom Thurmond (Rep), elected; P. Bradley Morrah, Jr. (Dem), defeated.

1966 Nov 8: Ernest F. Hollings (Dem), elected; Marshall J. Parker (Rep), defeated.

1968 Nov 5: Ernest F. Hollings (Dem), elected; Marshall J. Parker (Rep), defeated.

1972 Nov 7: Strom Thurmond (Rep), elected; Nick Zeigler (Dem), defeated.

1974 Nov 5: Ernest F. Hollings (Dem), elected; Gwen Bush (Rep), defeated; Harold Hough (Ind), defeated.

1978 Nov 7: Strom Thurmond (Rep), elected; Charles D. Ravenel (Dem), defeated.

1980 Nov 4: Ernest F. Hollings (Dem), elected; Marshall T. Mays (Rep), defeated.

1984 Nov 6: Strom Thurmond (Rep), elected; Melvin Purvis (Dem), defeated; Stephen Davis (Libertarian), defeated.

1986 Nov 4: Ernest F. Hollings (Dem), elected; Henry D. McMaster (Rep), defeated; Steve Vandervelde (Libertarian), defeated; Ray Hillyard (American), defeated.

1990 Nov 6: Strom Thurmond (Rep), elected; Robert Cunningham (Dem), defeated; William H. Griffin (Libertarian), defeated; Marion C. Metts (American), defeated.

1992 Nov 3: Ernest F. Hollings (Dem), elected; Tommy Hartnett (Rep), defeated; Mark Johnson (Libertarian), defeated; Robert Barnwell Clarkson II (American), defeated.

1996 Nov 5: Strom Thurmond (Rep), elected; Elliot Springs Close (Dem), defeated; Richard T. Quillian (Libertarian), defeated; Peter J. Ashy (Reform), defeated; Annette C. Estes (Natural Law), defeated.

1998 Nov 3: Ernest F. Hollings (Dem), elected; Bob Inglis (Rep), defeated; Richard T. Quillian (Libertarian), defeated.

2002 Nov 5: Lindsey O. Graham (Rep), elected.

2008 Jun 15: Robert M. Conley (Dem), nominated; Michael Cone (Dem), defeated in primary.

2008 Nov 4: Robert M. Conley (Dem), defeated.

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