South Carolina – Lawyers in South Carolina History

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Memorial sketches of prominent South Carolina laywers
Aldrich, Robert - 1844-1911
Anders, James C. - 1941-2004
Ansel, Martin Frederick - 1850-1945
Arnold, Walter Harold - 1907-1998
Aycock, William Thomas - 1868-1928
Babb, Robert Edgar - 1872-1951
Bailey, Frank Herndon - 1902-1986
Bailey, Ralph - 1927-2003
Baker, Gordon Badger - 1906-1973
Barnes, Rudolph Counts - 1917-1995
Barnwell, Nathaniel Berners - 1877-1950
Bean, Howard Carlisle - 1923-2000
Bell, Randall Theron - 1945-1994
Bellinger, George Duncan - 1856-1910
Bellinger, George Duncan, Jr. - 1888-1963
Belser, Duncan Clinch Heyward - 1918-1994
Belser, Irvine Furman - 1989-1969
Belser, James Edwin - 1883-1962
Belser, William Gordon - 1875-1961
Benet, Christie - 1879-1951
Bissell, Jean Galloway - 1936-1990
Black, Shuler Augustus - 1901-1970
Blatt, Solomon - 1895-1986
Blythe, Edgeworth Montague - 1872-1945
Bomar, Horace Leland, Jr. - 1912-1994
Bonham, Milledge Lipscomb - 1854-1943
Boulware, Thomas McCullough - 1883-1953
Boyd, William Clarence, Jr. - 1904-1975
Bradford, James William - 1914-1998
Brailsford, James Moncrief, Jr. - 1910-1993
Brewer, Wilburn, Jr. - 1939-2003
Brown, Clarence Alvin - 1940-1978
Brown, Edgar Allan - 1888-1975
Bruton, John Calvin - 1907-1969
Bryan, Gustavus Werber - 1914-1990
Bryant, Eugene - 1902-1969
Bryant, Thomas Braxton, Jr. - 1905-1983
Buist, George Lamb - 1888-1967
Buist, Henry - 1895-1977
Burgess, Alfred Franklin - 1906-1992
Burns, Howard Lamar - 1914-1996
Busbee, Henry - 1892-1987
Bussey, Thomas Patrick - 1905-1981
Butler, Thomas Bothwell - 1903-1972
Byrnes, James F. - 1879-1972
Calhoun, John C. - 1782-1850
Cain, Thomas Pinckney Lowndes - 1901-1953
Callison, Tolliver Cleveland - 1884-1966
Cappelmann, F. William - 1888-1958
Carpenter, Robert Reid - 1929-2001
Chappell, John Wainwright - 1941-1980
Clarkson, Nathaniel Heyward, Jr. - 1911-1995
Cochran, Ernest Ford - 1865-1934
Coleman, Alvin Atwell, Jr. - 1930-1995
Coleman, George Franklin, Jr. - 1918-2002
Connor, Carol - 1950-2004
Connor, Wallace Darlington, Jr. - 1916-1995
Cooper, Edwin Haselden - 1907-1993
Cooper, Paul Anderson - 1889-1956
Cosgrove, John Ignatius - 1888-1948
Cothran, Thomas Perrin - 1857-1934
Cox, Fred D., Jr. - 1922-2000
Crews, John Wolff - 1890-1962
Crum, Henry Hayne - 1914-2000
deLoach, John Kershaw - 1900-1984
Dennis, Edward Colgate, Sr. - 1872-1955
Dennis, Edward Colgate, Jr. - 1910-1993
Dennis, Rembert Coney - 1915-1992
Dial, George Louis - 1900-1983
Douglas, Moultrie Dwight - 1901-1980
Dowling, Grafton Geddes - 1915-2001
Dowling, Joab Mauldin, Sr. - 1917-1992
Drake, Ralph Wilbur - 1911-2002
Dreher, James Franklin - 1910-1972
Dufour, Alfred Edmundston - 1927-1992
DuRant, Charlton - 1874-1953
Edens, Henry Harman - 1909-1990
Edens, John Edward - 1896-1963
Edmunds, Samuel Henry - 1901-1968
Ehrhardt, William Craig - 1909-1986
Elliott, Charles Bell - 1885-1970
Elliott, William - 1872-1943
Elliott, William Talley - 1903-1961
Eppes, Frank - 1922-2002
Erckmann, Harry L. - 1878-1963
Fanning, Fred Randolph, Jr. - 1915-1995
Featherstone, Claudius Cyprian - 1864-1945
Figg, Robert McCormick, Jr. - 1901-1991
Finlay, Kirkman, Jr - 1936-1993
Finley, David Edward - 1861-1917
Finley, William Gist - 1895-1969
Fort, James Claude - 1892-1980
Foster, Paul Juan, Jr. - 1925-1999
Foster, Richard Joseph - 1915-1998
Frierson, James Nelson - 1874-1960
Fulmer, James Monroe - 1912-1971
Gable, Wilburn Carrol, Jr. - 1930-1978
Gage, George Williams - 1856-1921
Galloway, Robert Stone, Jr. - 1928-1997
Gary, Ernest - 1857-1914
Gary, Eugene Blackburn - 1858-1926
Gary, Frank Boyd - 1860-1922
Gary, Frank Boyd, Jr. - 1900-1971
Gaston, Arthur Lee - 1876-1951
Gaston, David Aiken - 1903-1988
Gaud, Henry Taylor - 1909-1993
Gentry, John Thomas - 1924-1991
Gibbs, Charles H. - 1915-1993
Glenn, John Lyles - 1892-1938
Glenn, Terrell Lyles, Sr. - 1930-1993
Goldberg, I. M. - 1933-1979
Goldberg, William Crosland - 1917-1972
Graydon, Clinton Tompkins - 1890-1962
Greene, George Benjamin - 1878-1957
Gregory, George Tillman, Jr. - 1921-2001
Gregory, Ned - 1903-1986
Gressette, Lawrence Marion - 1902-1984
Grier, Frank Barron - 1869-1933
Grier, Frank Barron, Jr. - 1907-1971
Griffith, Eugene Cannon - 1936-1990
Griffith, Jefferson Davis - 1889-1973
Griffith, Steve Campbell - 1898-1972
Grimball, John - 1914-1991
Grimball, William Heyward - 1886-1964
Grimball, William Heyward - 1917-1999
Guerard, Theodore Bogert - 1930-1997
Hagood, Benjamin Adger - 1866-1928
Hammond, James Henry - 1885-1970
Hardee, Abram Lindsay - 1893-1969
Hare, William Ross - 1834-1980
Harrell, Rogers Edward - 1905-1978
Harvey, William Brantley, Sr. - 1893-1981
Hayes, Billy Drennan - 1920-2002
Haynsworth, Clement Furman - 1885-1953
Haynsworth, Clement Furman, Jr. - 1911-1989
Haynsworth, Harry J. - 1859-1941
Hemphill, John McLure - 1887-1952
Hemphill, Robert Witherspoon - 1915-1983
Henderson, Daniel S. - 1849-1921
Henderson, Edward Henry - 1886-1959
Henderson, Peronneau Finley - 1877-1968
Herbert, Robert Beverley - 1879-1974
Herbert, Robert Beverley, Jr. - 1916-1977
Hildebrand, Raymond Braddy - 1904-1954
Hodges, Benjamin Deland - 1887-1937
Hodges, Edward Pegues - 1897-1954
Holcombe, James Nelville - 1902-1983
Holland, Donald H. - 1928-2003
Hollings, Robert Meyer - 1915-1999
Holmes, Alexander Baron III - 1905-1991
Horger, Charlton Bowen - 1914-1997
Howard, Ernest Joseph - 1930-2000
Howe, Gedney Main, Jr. - 1914-1981
Howell, Louis Peyton - 1932-1998
Hyman, Peter Dewitt, Sr. - 1927-1999
James, George Coggin, Sr. - 1927-1999
Jefferies, Richard Manning - 1889-1964
Jenkinson, William Eldridge, Jr. - 1912-1991
Jennings, Henry Caldwell - 1891-1978
Johnson, Benjamin O. - 1905-1976
Johnson, Edwin Wallace, Jr. - 1904-1979
Johnson, Harvey Williams - 1899-1972
Johnson, Joseph Travis - 1858-1919
Karesh, Coleman - 1903-1977
Kerr, John Davis - 1903-1964
Kilgo, Robert Lawton, Sr. - 1917-1992
Kirkland, Henry Wesley - 1923-2002
Kirven, H. Grady - 1925-1994
Kneece, Robert Edward - 1933-2000
Knowlton, Charles Wilson - 1923-1990
Leatherwood, Dennis Bryan - 1896-1989
Levy, George Davis - 1883-1972
Lewis, James Woodrow - 1912-1999
Lide, Lanneau Durant - 1876-1953
Lightsey, Harry McKinley - 1901-1986
Long, Hubert Eugene - 1921-2000
Long, O. Langdon - 1891-1971
Lourie, Isadore Edward - 1932-2003
Love, James Lyle - 1891-1972
Lumpkin, Alva Moore - 1886-1941
Lumpkin, John Henderson - 1916-1999
Lyles, Joseph Berry Sloan - 1885-1963
Macaulay, Angus Hamilton - 1893-1964
Mann, Alfred Cleo - 1889-1956
Marion, Andrew Burnet - 1889-1956
Marion, William Francis - b. 1923
Martin, J. Robert, Jr. - 1909-1984
Mays, Calhoun Allen - 1884-1967
McCants, Clarke Wardlaw - 1885-1950
McCutcheon, John Betts, Sr. - 1915-1997
McDonald, Heyward Elliott - 1925-2000
McDonald, James Edwin - 1856-1933
McDonald, Moffatt Grier - 1889-1953
McDonald, Thomas Ketchin Elliott - 1898-1974
McEachin, Peter Hector - 1895-1971
McElveen, George Raymond - 1896-1989
McFadden, Joseph Means - 1901-1990
McGowan, Franklin Pierce - 1898-1968
McKay, Douglas - 1886-1966
McKissick, James Rion - 1884-1944
McLendon, James Malcolm - 1909-2000
McLeod, Daniel R. - 1913-1985
McLeod, Franklin Alexander - 1884-1958
McLeod, Richard Kirk - 1921-1987
McLeod, Thomas Gordon - 1868-1932
McLeod, Walton James, Jr. - 1906-1994
McLeod, Yancey Alford - 1909-1975
Sansbury, Paul Andrews, Jr. - 1920-1989
Sapp, Claud Napoleon - 1886-1947
Savage, Henry, Jr. - 1903-1990
Scott, John Munford - 1910-1982
Seals, William Henry - 1926-1989
Sease, Thomas Sidney - 1867-1952
Shand, William Munro - 1881-1941
Shipp, Samuel Wilds Gillespie - 1880-1937
Sinkler, Huger - 1868-1913
Sinkler, Huger - 1908-1987
Sloan, Robert Beverley - 1883-1950
Smith, Henry Augustus Middleton - 1853-1924
Smith, Herbert Lee - 1889-1969
Smythe, Augustine Thomas - 1885-1962
Sneeden, Emory Marlin - 1927-1987
Spain, Thomas Hardeman - 1857-1935
Spencer, Charles William Fraser - 1876-1956
Spencer, Charles William Fraser, Jr. - 1911-1985
Spratt, John McKee - 1907-1973
Stephenson, Harry Roberts, Jr. - 1915-1990
Stoney, Laurence O'Hear, Sr. - 1921-1992
Stoney, Thomas Porcher - 1889-1974
Stukes, Taylor Hudnall - 1893-1961
Suggs, William Kenneth - 1893-1972
Taylor, Claude Ambrose - 1902-1966
Taylor, Claude Ambrose, Jr. - 1933-1991
Taylor, Frank L. - 1910-1976
Thomas, Calhoun - 1903-1970
Thomas, John Peyre, Jr. - 1857-1946
Thomas, William Joseph - 1871-1942
Thomason, B. O., Jr. - 1926-1993
Thomson, Bernard Melchoir, Jr. - 1913-1991
Thurmond, John William - 1862-1934
Timmerman, George Bell - 1881-1966
Timmerman, George Bell, Jr. - 1912-1994
Tobias, Ashley Cowan, Jr. - 1886-1966
Todd, Albert Creswell - 1880-1961
Townsend, William Hutson - 1868-1934
Trott, Nicholas - 1663-1740 - became SC's first attorney general in 1698
Turner, Nathaniel A. - 1897-1959
Vandiver, Robert Edward - 1917-1977
Verner, James Spencer - 1906-1964
Walker, John Frost - 1881-1970
Walker, John Frost, Jr. - 1911-1989
Walsh, Thomas Emmet - 1919-1990
Ward, Rufus Montgomery - 1908-1988
Watkins, Henry Hitt - 1866-1947
Watkins, Thomas Franklin - 1881-1973
Watt, Samuel R. - 1900-1968
Weinberg, Mortimer M. - 1896-1968
Whaley, Ben Scott - 1909-1987
Whaley, Marcellus Seabrook - 1885-1961
Whaley, Richard Smith - 1874-1951
Whaley, Thomas Baynard - 1909-1992
White, Bruce Welborn - 1905-1984
Wilkins, William Walter - 1906-1995
Willcox, Frederick Leroy - 1870-1937
Willcox, Hugh Labarbe - 1905-1994
Willcox, Philip Alston - 1866-1922
Williams, Arthur Middleton - 1914-1990
Williams, Marshall Burns - 1912-1995
Williams, Ray Robinson - 1889-1989
Wilmeth, John Frank - 1889-1956
Winter, David McKewn - 1895-1984
Wise, Robert King - 1892-1981
Wofford, Thomas Albert - 1908-1978
Woods, Charles A. - 1852-1925
Woods, Malcolm Carr, Jr. - 1906-1993
Wright, Jonathan Jasper - 1840-1885
Wyche, Charles Cecil - 1885-1966
Wyche, Cyril Granville - 1890-1988
Young, Arthur Rutledge - 1876-1947
Young, Charles Albert - 1902-1955
Young, Henry Edward - 1831-1918