Palmetto Profiles: The South Carolina Encyclopedia Guide to the South Carolina Hall of Fame

by W. Eric Emerson (Editor), Walter B. Edgar (Foreword by)

Overview

Palmetto Profiles documents the lives and accomplishments of the inductees of the South Carolina Hall of Fame during its first forty years. As Governor John C. West predicted in his dedication speech, the Hall of Fame has indeed become a "vital and integral part of the history and culture of South Carolina." Nearly ninety citizens have been inducted since Apollo 16 astronaut Colonel Charles Duke, Jr., became the first honoree in 1973. Each year one contemporary and one deceased individual is recognized by the hall for outstanding contributions to South Carolina's heritage and progress.

To date, inductees have included political leaders and reformers, artists, writers, scientists, soldiers, clergy, educators, athletes, and others. U.S. president Andrew Jackson, authors Elizabeth Coker and Pat Conroy, jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie, artists Jasper Johns and Elizabeth O'Neil Verner, Catawba King Hagler, Generals Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter, civil rights leaders Mary McLeod Bethune and Reverend Benjamin E. Mays, U.S. senators J. Strom Thurmond and Fritz Hollings, and Nobel Prize winning physicist Charles H. Townes are just some of the representative South Carolinians memorialized in the Hall of Fame for their lasting legacies in the Palmetto State and beyond.

Published on the fortieth anniversary of the opening of the South Carolina Hall of Fame and drawn from biographical entries in The South Carolina Encyclopedia, this guidebook presents concise profiles of the inductees from 1973 to 2013. Palmetto Profiles, like the Hall of Fame itself, serves as a tangible link to South Carolina's rich and complex past to the benefit of residents, visitors, and students alike. The volume also includes illustrations of all inductees and a foreword by Walter Edgar, a 2008 Hall of Fame inductee, author of South Carolina: A History, and editor of The South Carolina Encyclopedia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611172867
Publisher:	University of South Carolina Press
Publication date:	09/30/2013
Series:	South Carolina Encyclopedia Guides
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	1,052,844
File size:	10 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

W. Eric Emerson is a trustee of the South Carolina Hall of Fame and the director of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. He is the author of Sons of Privilege: The Charleston Light Dragoons in the Civil War and the coeditor of Faith, Valor, and Devotion: The Civil War Letters of William Porcher DuBose and A Confederate Englishman: The Civil War Letters of Henry Wemyss Feilden.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface xi

Foreword Walter Edgar xiii

Introduction 1

Hall of Fame Inductees 8

Baruch, Bernard Mannes 8

Bass, Robert Duncan 10

Bernardin, Joseph Louis 11

Bethune, Mary McLeod 13

Bolden, Charles Frank, Jr. 15

Bonham, James Butler 17

Butler, Pierce 18

Byrnes, James Francis 20

Calhoun, John Caldwell 24

Callen, Maude Daniel 29

Chesnut, Mary Boykin Miller 31

Clemson, Thomas Green, IV 33

Coker, Elizabeth Boatwright 35

Coker, James Lide, Jr. 36

Conroy, Donald Patrick 38

Cunningham, Ann Pamela 40

Dorn, William Jennings Bryan 41

Drayton, William Henry 43

Duke, Charles Moss, Jr. 45

Edgar, Walter Bellingrath 47

Edmunds, Frances Ravenel Smythe 49

Edwards, James Burrows 51

Farrow, William Glover "Bill" 53

Finney, Ernest Adolphus, Jr. 56

Floyd, Carlisle Sessions 58

Gillespie, John Birks "Dizzy" 59

Godbold, Lucile Ellerbe 60

Gray, Wil Lou 62

Gregg, William 64

Hagler 66

Hall, William Stone 67

Hampton, Wade, III 69

Heller, John Roderick 72

Heyward, Thomas, Jr. 73

Hollings, Ernest Frederick "Fritz" 75

Horry, Peter 78

Howie, Thomas Dry 79

Huntington, Anna Vaughn Hyatt 82

Jackson, Andrew 84

Jasper, William 86

Johns, Jasper 88

Laurens, Henry 89

Lynch, Thomas, Jr. 92

Lynch, Thomas, Sr. 94

Marion, Francis 95

Marvin, Robert E. 97

Mays, Benjamin Elijah 99

McColl, Hugh Leon, Jr. 101

McKissick, John 102

McNair, Robert Evander 104

McNair, Ronald Erwin 106

Middleton, Arthur 108

Milliken, Roger 110

Mills, Robert 112

Moultrie, William 116

Oliphant, Mary Chevillette Simms 118

Perry, Matthew J., Jr. 119

Peterkin, Julia Mood 121

Petigru, James Louis 123

Pickens, Andrew 126

Pinckney, Charles 127

Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth 131

Pinckney, Eliza Lucas 133

Pinckney, Thomas 136

Poinsett, Joel Roberts 138

Richardson (Paszek), Anne Worsham 141

Richardson, Robert Clinton "Bobby" 142

Riley, Richard Wilson 143

Russell, Donald Stewart 145

Rutledge, Archibald 148

Rutledge, Edward 149

Rutledge, John 151

Simmons, Philip 153

Simms, William Gilmore 155

Sims, James Marion 158

Smalls, Robert 160

Smart, Jacob Edward 162

Springs, Elliot White 164

Sumter, Thomas 166

Thurmond, James Strom 168

Townes, Charles Hard 173

Travis, William Barret 174

Verner, Elizabeth O'Neill 176

Walker, William 177

West, John Carl 179

Westmoreland, William Childs 180

Wylie, Walker Gill 182

Yarborough, William Caleb "Cale" 184

Young, Anne Austin 187

Editorial Reviews

"In its first forty years, the South Carolina Hall of Fame has established itself as an inspiring celebration of some of our state's most exemplary citizens. It is my honor to be counted among them. The Hall of Fame, and now this handsome guidebook to the Hall's inductees, teaches us the value of high ideals, impassioned leadership, and the power of the individual citizen who decides to make a difference. I hope Palmetto Profiles emboldens future generations to take the lead and help make South Carolina a place that honors its history while striving for a better, brighter future."—The Honorable Richard W. Riley, former U.S. secretary of education and former South Carolina governor

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