Susie Marshall Sharp was an American jurist who served as the first female chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She was not the first woman to head the highest court in a U.S. state,but is believed to be the first woman elected to such a post in a state,like North Carolina,in which the position is elected by the people separately from that of Associate Justice. In 1965,Lorna E. Lockwood became the first female chief justice of a state supreme court,but in Arizona,the Supreme Court justices elect their chief justice.
Frank Boyd Gary was a United States Senator from South Carolina. Born in Cokesbury,South Carolina,he attended the Cokesbury Conference School and Union College. He studied law,was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Abbeville,South Carolina in 1881. From 1890 to 1900 he was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives,serving as speaker from 1895 to 1900. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1895 and was a member of the State house of representatives in 1906.
Scholars have identified more than 1,500 African American officeholders who served during the Reconstruction Era (1865–1877) after passage of the Reconstruction Acts in 1867 and 1868 as well as in the years after Reconstruction before white supremacy,disenfranchisement,and the Democratic Party fully reasserted control in Southern states. Historian Canter Brown,Jr. noted that in some states,such as Florida,the highest number of African Americans were elected or appointed to offices after 1877 and the end of Reconstruction. The following is a partial list some of the most notable of the officeholders pre–1900.
Patrick Noble was the 57th Governor of South Carolina from 1838 until his death in 1840.
Walter McKenzie Clark was a North Carolina politician and attorney who served as an associate justice (1889–1903) and chief justice (1903–1924) of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Fred Henry Davis was an American attorney and politician from the state of Florida,serving as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida from 1933 until 1935.
John Rutledge was an American Founding Father,politician,and jurist who served as one of the original associate justices of the Supreme Court and the second chief justice of the United States. Additionally,he served as the first president of South Carolina and later as its first governor after the Declaration of Independence was signed.
Charles Albert Woods was an Associate Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court and then a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Upper Long Cane Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Abbeville,South Carolina,founded c,1760. Over 2,500 marked graves and numerous unmarked graves cover the cemetery's approximately 25 acres. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
Ira B. Jones was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court and a candidate for governor in 1912.
Young John Pope was a South Carolina lawyer,mayor,attorney general,and chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Ammiel J. Willard was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born in Albany,New York in 1822. He studied law under Willis Hall,the attorney-general of New York,before being made assistant counsel of New York City in 1848.
Daniel Edward Hydrick Sr. was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was born in Orangeburg,South Carolina on August 6,1860,and attended Wofford College before transferring to Vanderbilt University in 1880. He began practicing law in Spartanburg,South Carolina and was twice elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives and then twice to the South Carolina Senate. He resigned during his second term in the South Carolina Senate to become a state trial court judge. His term began on December 15,1905. He was a trial judge until 1909 when he was elected to a seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was elected by the General Assembly to take the position left vacant when Ira B. Jones was elevated to the chief justice position,and he was commissioned on April 15,1909. He was reelected to a full term in 1918. He died on January 15,1921,in Washington,D.C.;he had been travelling from Baltimore,Maryland to Spartanburg,South Carolina to visit his son for Christmas and contracted pneumonia during the trip. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Spartanburg,South Carolina.
Milledge Lipscomb Bonham was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. On October 16,1854,he was born to Milledge Luke Bonham and Ann Patience Griffin. From 1863 to 1864,Bonham was educated at Sachlaben's Academy,Edgefield Academy between 1866 and 1872,and Carolina Military Institute (Charlotte) from 1875 to 1876. He was admitted to the South Carolina bar in 1877 following his tutoring of the law under Colonel Robert Aldrich. He married Daisy Aldrich on October 24,1878,with whom he had three children. After Daisy died,Bonham remarried to Dr. Lillian L. Carter on March 2,1925.
Archie Lee Chandler was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He attended The Citadel,but had to miss his senior year to join the military during World War II. He settled in Darlington,South Carolina to practice law,and was elected from there to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1972. In 1976,he was made a trial court judge,a position he held until being elevated to the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was elected to the South Carolina Supreme Court in 1984 and became the chief justice in 1994. His election to be the new chief justice took place on February 23,1994. He was sworn in on June 22,1994.
Taylor Hudnall Stukes was an associate justice and chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Thomas Boone Fraser was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was elected on January 11,1912. He was sworn in on January 12,1912. He died on May 21,1925,and is buried at the Sumter Cemetery in Sumter,South Carolina.
John Hardin Marion was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. His predecessor,Justice Gage's,term was to expire on August 1,1922,and the Statehouse held an election soon after Marion had been elected to fill the remaining term of his predecessor;the length of the term was beyond what would have permitted the governor to simply appoint a successor. The Statehouse was unable to choose a successor for the new term to start in August 1921 despite thirty-nine ballots over several weeks;on March 4,1921,the General Assembly agreed to delay the selection of a new justice until the 1922 term,leaving the position unfilled for several months. When the legislature reconvened in January 1922,Marion was finally elected on the forty-seventh ballot. The drawn-out balloting was merely to fill the unexpired term of Justice Gage;the Statehouse then,on January 18,1922,quickly elected Marion to not just finish the unexpired term but to fill a complete term thereafter. he left the court to take a position in Charlotte,North Carolina working for Duke Power. He was sworn in on January 19,1922. He is buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Chester,South Carolina.
George C. "Buck" James,Jr is an American lawyer and judge,who serves as an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.
Washington Hodges Timmerman was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1897 he was the 61st Lieutenant Governor of the State of South Carolina.
