D. Portraits of Noted Carolinians | History of SC Slide Collection

Portraits of noted Carolinians are listed alphabetically.

This image courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

William Wragg | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 141

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William Wragg (1714-1777) was a prominent loyalist during the American Revolution. Born in South Carolina, educated in the law in England, he returned to his native land in 1734, and rapidly rose to...

William May Wightman | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 140

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William May Wightman (1808-1882) was chosen as the Bishop of the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church in 1866, after a distinguished career as an educator and Methodist minister. Educated at the...

John Wesley | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 139

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John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of the Methodist Church, was in South Carolina only briefly, but the denomination he founded has had a profound effect on the province and state. From a small...

Charles Hard Townes | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 138

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Charles Hard Townes (1915-2015 ) is South Carolina's only Nobel Prize winner, an honor he was awarded for his development of the laser. This photograph shows him accepting that award in Stockholm...

Governor Benjamin R. Tillman | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 137

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Born near Trenton, in Edgefield County, Governor Benjamin R. Tillman (1847-1918) attended a local "field school" and Bethany Academy. During the 1890s, farmers began to organize a national movement to...

Waddy Thompson, Jr. | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 136

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Waddy Thompson (1798-1868), Jr., served as a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the backcountry from 1835 to 1841. Born in Pickens, in Ninety-Six District, he graduated from South...

Thomas Taylor | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 135

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Thomas Taylor (1743-1833) owned the plantation at the top of a hill next to the confluence of the Broad and Saluda Rivers in Richland County that became the site of the city of Columbia in 1786 (see...

Banastre Tarleton | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 134

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Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833), known to South Carolina revolutionary leaders as "Bloody Tarleton," first came to Charleston as an officer under General Clinton's command in the failed attack on Fort...

Thomas Sumter | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 133

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Thomas Sumter (1732-1832) was, at his death, the last surviving general of the Revolutionary Army. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, he fought in the French and Indian Wars as a Virginia militia man...

Reverend Sarah H. Smith | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 132

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Reverend Sarah H. Smith (1884-1937) was a Baptist preacher who came to Columbia early in the 20th century from Savannah and organized Bethlehem Baptist Church in 1913 by going from house to house. By...

William Loughton Smith | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 131

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William Loughton Smith (1758-1812) was one of the leading Federalists in South Carolina in the early national period. Educated in schools in London, he studied law at the Middle Temple and returned to...

Robert Smalls | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 130

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A former slave who became a state legislator and U.S. Congressman, Robert Smalls (1839-1915) was born in Beaufort, and moved with his master to Charleston in 1851. During the Civil War, he was pressed...

Modjeska Monteith Simkins | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 129

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Modjeska Monteith Simkins (1899-1992) is one of the outstanding civil rights leaders in South Carolina. The oldest of eight children of a bricklayer, she sought education not only for herself, but for...

Hilla Sheriff | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 128

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Hilla Sheriff (1900-1988) was a leader in shaping public health policies in South Carolina. She graduated from the College of Charleston, and was one of only three women to receive a medical degree...

John R. Schorb | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 127

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John R. Schorb (1818-1908) was an early photographer in South Carolina, practicing first as a daguerreotypist, and later using wet and dry plate photographic techniques, in Winnsboro and Yorkville...

Eliza Rutledge | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 126

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Eliza Rutledge (1776-1842), the daughter of John Rutledge, was fifteen when she was painted by the distinguished American historical painter John Trumbull (1756-1843) in 1791. She later became Mrs...

Edward Rutledge | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 125

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Son of an Irish immigrant doctor, Edward Rutledge (1749-1800) was born in Charleston where he received his early education. Later, he studied law at the Middle Temple in London, returning to South...

Richard S. Roberts | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 124

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Richard S. Roberts (1880-1936), a talented photographer, left an enduring film record of Columbia's African-American middle class community during the 1920s and 1930s. This self portrait was taken in...

Colonel William Rhett | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 123

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Born in England, Colonel William Rhett (1666-1722) came to the Carolina colony in November 1694 as a captain of a merchant ship. In the impoverished Carolina colony, pirates, former seamen who had...

Robert Barnwell Rhett | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 122

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Robert Barnwell Rhett (1800-1876) was born Robert Barnwell Smith in Beaufort, and changed his name legally by act of the South Carolina legislature in 1838. Elected to the state House of...

Alonzo J. Ransier | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 121

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Alonzo J. Ransier (1834-1882), born a free African-American in Charleston, was one of two African-American men in South Carolina to achieve the position of lieutenant governor. He held this office...

Dr. David Ramsey | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 120

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Dr. David Ramsey (1749-1815) was a physician and historian. Born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Ramsey attended local schools, the College of New Jersey (now Princeton), and the College of...

James Reid Pringle | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 119

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James Reid Pringle (1782-1840) was President of the South Carolina Senate from 1814-1818, and Collector of the Port of Charleston. During the Nullification Controversy, he was a Unionist. This...

Joel Robert Poinsett | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 118

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Joel Robert Poinsett (1779-1851) was the first American Minister to Mexico, serving from 1825-1830. As a result of that assignment, he introduced into the United States the poinsettia, a flower named...