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Pathways to Success: Finance Edition. Accessed October 1, 2015. ed.sc.gov

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Pathways to Success: Finance Edition. Accessed October 1, 2015. ed.sc.gov

A. Lee M. Wiggins | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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A. Lee M. Wiggins | Legacy of Leadership Profile
A. Lee M. Wiggins (1891–1980) When Lee Wiggins graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1913, he moved to Hartsville to become secretary to David R. Coker, managing partner of J. L. Coker...
Robert V. Royall, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Robert V. Royall, Jr. | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Robert V. Royall (1934 - ) After David Beasley was elected governor of South Carolina in 1994, his first priority was choosing a secretary to head the Department of Commerce, a new Cabinet post that...
Colonial Williamsburg, Part 2 | Project Discovery Revisited New York Stock Exchange | Project Discovery Revisited

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New York Stock Exchange | Project Discovery Revisited
The New York Stock Exchange is the largest stock market in the world. Approximately 2,300 companies belong to this market in which over 6 billion shares of stock are traded every day. In 1792, the...
Joseph H. Williams | Legacy of Leadership Profile Edwin Wales Robertson | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Edwin Wales Robertson | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Edwin Wales Robertson (1863–1928) When he died of a heart attack, at age 65, on a business trip to New York City on November 20, 1928, The New York Times published a column-long story with the...
John M. Rivers | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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John M. Rivers | Legacy of Leadership Profile
John M. Rivers (1903–1988) After 12 years in banking and two successful years as vice president of a securities firm, John M. Rivers surprised the Charleston business community. He accepted a job as...
J. Wilson Newman | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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J. Wilson Newman | Legacy of Leadership Profile
J. Wilson Newman (1909-2003) Growing up in Clemson (pop. 400), J. Wilson Newman earned his first money in agricultural pursuits, such as counting squares at the Experiment Station's test plots for...
Edwin G. Seibels | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Edwin G. Seibels | Legacy of Leadership Profile
Edwin G. Seibels (1866–1954) "That I was not born on my father's plantation, Mount Willing in Edgefield County, S.C., in the midst of the fields of ripening cotton, was only due to the fact that there...
Hugh McColl | S.C. Hall of Fame

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Hugh McColl | S.C. Hall of Fame
At the age of fourteen, Hugh Leon McColl Jr. learned double entry book-keeping while working at his father's cotton company. This skill would prepare him for a career in banking and would lead McColl...
Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile

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Bernard M. Baruch | Legacy of Leadership Profile
1870–1965 Bernard M. Baruch, the "Park Bench Statesman," made his fortune on Wall Street, but his greatest challenge and his greatest satisfaction were his service to his country as an economic...