William Johnston Tupper was a politician and office holder in Manitoba,Canada. He served as the province's 12th Lieutenant Governor from 1934 to 1940.
Robert Barnwell Rhett was an American politician who served as a deputy from South Carolina to the Provisional Confederate States Congress from 1861 to 1862,a member of the US House of Representatives from South Carolina from 1837 to 1849,and US Senator from South Carolina from 1850 to 1852. As a staunch supporter of slavery and an early advocate of secession,he was a "Fire-Eater",nicknamed the "father of secession".
Joseph Patrick Riley Jr. is an American politician who served as the 60th mayor of Charleston,South Carolina from 1975 to 2016. A member of the Democratic Party,he also served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1968 to 1974 and was the 44th President of the United States Conference of Mayors from 1986 to 1987. Riley's 40 years as mayor were the longest in South Carolina history at the time of his retirement and are the longest in Charleston's history.
Burnet Rhett Maybank was a three-term US senator,the 99th governor of South Carolina,and mayor of Charleston,South Carolina. He was the first governor from Charleston since the American Civil War (1861-1865) and one of twenty people in United States history to have been elected mayor,governor,and United States senator. During his tenure in the Senate,Maybank was a powerful ally of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His unexpected death on September 1,1954,from a heart attack,led to Strom Thurmond being elected senator.
David Burns Hyer was an American architect who practiced in Charleston,South Carolina and Orlando,Florida during the first half of the twentieth century,designing civic buildings in the Neoclassical Revival and Mediterranean Revival styles.
Albert Wheeler Todd was an architect in Charleston,South Carolina. He is known for his neoclassical architecture,the design on his own home and of a home for Tristram Hyde. Todd was the senior partner at the firm of Todd &Benson which became Todd,Simons &Todd. Joseph F. Leitner worked with him. Todd also served in the legislature from 1910 until 1924 and was a State Senator.
John Darlington Newcomer was an American architect whose practice focused on Charleston,South Carolina in the early 20th century.
James Adger Smyth was Mayor of Charleston,South Carolina for two terms between 1896 and 1903.
Wendell G. Gilliard is an American politician,steelworker,and union official. A Democrat,Gilliard serves as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives,representing the 111th District.
Tristram Hyde House is a historic two-story home in Charleston,South Carolina constructed in 1914 for Tristram Hyde,who soon after became mayor of Charleston in 1915. It was designed by local architect Albert Wheeler Todd.
The Francis Marion Hotel is a historic hotel opened in 1924 and located at 387 King St.,Charleston,South Carolina. It is one of the tallest buildings in Charleston. The hotel is a member of Historic Hotels of America.
Thomas Roper (1760-1829) was the tenth intendent (mayor) of Charleston,South Carolina,serving two terms between 1799 and 1801. As mayor of Charleston,he was influential in the move to build a chapel at the Charleston Orphan House;it was completed in 1801. He died on April 15,1829,and is buried in the graveyard at St. Philips in Charleston,South Carolina. Because his only son died without an heir in 1845,Col. Roper's real estate on East Battery and Queen Streets passed to the Medical Society of South Carolina. Roper Hospital is named in his honor.
Thomas Porcher Stoney was the fifty-third mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,serving between 1923 and 1931.
John P. Grace (1874-1940) was the fifty-first mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,completing two,nonconsecutive terms from 1911 to 1915 and then 1919 to 1923.
Robert Goodwyn Rhett (1862–1939) was the fiftieth mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,completing two terms from 1903 to 1911. From 1916 to 1918,he served as president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States.
George D. Bryan (1845–1919) was the forty-seventh mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,completing one term from 1887 to 1891. Bryan was born on September 26,1845,in Charleston to United States judge George S. and Rebecca Louisa Dwight. He died on June 4,1919.
Johann Andreas Wagener (1816-1876) was the forty-third mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,serving one term from 1871 to 1873. He also served as an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
William W. Sale was the forty-fifth mayor of Charleston,South Carolina,serving one term from 1877 to 1879. He was born in September 1819 in South Carolina and married Edith Cleapor in about 1871. Before being elected,Sale worked as a teller at the First National Bank in Charleston. Sale was endorsed by the Charleston News &Courier,and he was elected on December 11,1877 by a margin of 5,288 to 1,924 in an election against D.F. Fleming. Sale was inducted on December 17,1877. As mayor,Sale lived on Chinquapin Street. After leaving office,he was the master of the Charleston Alms House. In 1900,he was living in Summerville,South Carolina.
Jacob Moorer was a South Carolina lawyer and civil rights activist. He frequently fought cases in opposition to the elector provisions of the 1895 South Carolina Constitution,which he viewed as disenfranchising blacks. His most famous case was Franklin v. South Carolina,a murder case involving black sharecropper Pink Franklin which he and John Adams,Sr. appealed to the United States Supreme Court.
Joseph Kendrick Cunningham is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district from 2019 to 2021. The district includes much of South Carolina's share of the Atlantic Coast,from Charleston to Hilton Head Island.
