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McKissick led the university through the tumultuous times of the Great Depression and World War II. With help through the New Deal, McKissick presided over the construction of a new library and five dormitories, as well as a general refurbishment of the campus. During World War II, McKissick guided the university into the war effort, establishing civilian pilot and laboratory technician training programs, adjusting the curriculum to include defense-oriented science and engineering courses, and establishing the nation’s first Red Cross nurse’s aide course.

Inaugurated on January 16, 1923, McLeod took office amid a prolonged statewide agricultural depression. Despite the economic crisis, McLeod advocated increased legislative spending on public education. As governor, he signed the 6-0-1 Law, which guaranteed all children in South Carolina at least six months of schooling annually.

Except for the tragedy at Orangeburg in February 1968, McNair saw the state peacefully through the stormy times without yielding on major policy issues. Settlement of the Charleston strike without union recognition in 1969 and keeping USC open in 1970 without serious injury to students were foremost among many public demonstrations in the state in which his moderate leadership was credited with minimizing violence.

After the Civil War he became a leader in reorganizing the denomination, calling for the 1866 meeting of the General Conference. At that meeting he was elected a bishop, and he increasingly became the chief spokesman for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Active in the South Carolina militia, he achieved the rank of brigadier general. After serving a single term in the state House of Representatives from 1844 to 1845, Means established himself as one of the leading fire-eaters in the South Carolina upcountry and vocal advocate of secession, a position put forth as a delegate to the Nashville Convention in 1850.

Milburn was one of the New South’s most successful and prolific architects. He worked throughout the Southeast and designed more than 250 major buildings, primarily railroad stations and public, institutional, and commercial structures.

From his leadership at Howard and through his prolific writings, Miller became a national figure in the debate on race in America.

From 1822 to 1828 Miller was a member of the South Carolina Senate and an early leader in the movement toward nullification.

A loyal Republican and politically ambitious, Miller was elected to the state House of Representatives in 1874 and served until 1880.

Mills defined both his personal and public ambition in an 1808 letter to Jefferson, in which he declared his desire to pursue “the honour and benefit of my country.”

Moise opposed secession and publicly argued against it. Nevertheless, when the Civil War came he volunteered for Confederate service.

An observant Jew, Moïse was an active member of Charleston’s Kahal Kadosh Beth Elohim synagogue.

The college’s first president, Dr. Edward M. Brawley, declared that the college stood for three things, “loyalty to Christ at all times . . . sound scholarship, and devotion to the Negro race.” Morris initially offered a curriculum for grammar school, a normal college for training teachers, a theology course, music, dressmaking, truck farming, and domestic science.

In 1872, in spite of his notorious reputation for corruption, the Republican state convention nominated Moses for governor. About one-third of the Republican delegates bolted from the convention and instead supported the former Freedmen’s Bureau official Reuben Tomlinson.

In May 1781 patriot commanders Francis Marion and Henry Lee decided that they would have to burn the house to get the British outpost to surrender. Rebecca Motte gave her consent to the plan and even provided the arrows used to set fire to the roof.

Not long after its formation, most of the unit was transferred to bolster Charleston’s defenses. A small detachment of soldiers remained as caretakers, but it is unclear whether they remained through the War of 1812.

The all-male Mt. Zion College, which included a great deal of elementary and preparatory learning for youths of all ages, was housed in a more substantial brick building by 1789 and flourished throughout the antebellum period as a strictly disciplined, academically challenging academy whose graduates were well prepared for admission to South Carolina College and other regional institutions.

She was appointed and reappointed by governors to the South Carolina Commission on Women from 1974 to 1985 and served as the commission’s chairperson. In this position she promoted the statewide project of Women’s History Week.

Mullis’s impact on the world of biotechnology has been described as no less than revolutionary. While employed at the Cetus Corporation in Emeryville, California, he conceived and developed the idea of PCR, polymerase chain reaction, in 1983.

Congressman. Murray was born a slave near Rembert, Sumter District, on September 22, 1853. Although left an orphan in early…