South Carolina Archives Summary Guide
Listed below are the names of the governors for which the SC Archives has records. Click on the name to see what records are available for that governor.
For a complete listing of
governors, see SCIway's South
Carolina Governors 1776-present.
Governor Edward Tynte (1709-1710)
Governor James Glen (1738-1756)
Governor William Henry Lyttleton (1756-1760)
Governor Thomas Pinckney (1787-1789)
Governor John Drayton (1800-1802)
Governor John Drayton (1808-1810)
Governor David Johnson (1846-1848)
Governor William H. Gist (1858-1860)
Governor Francis Wilkerson Pickens (1860-1862)
Governor Milledge Luke Bonham (1862-1864)
Governor Andrew Gordon Magrath (1864-1865)
Governor Benjamin Franklin Perry (1865)
Governor James Lawrence Orr (1865-1868)
Governor Robert K. Scott (1868-1872)
Governor Franklin J. Moses, Jr. (1872-1874)
Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain (1874-1877)
Governor Wade Hampton III (1876-1878)
Governor William Dunlap Simpson (1879-1880)
Governor Thomas B. Jeter (1880)
Governor Johnson Hagood (1880-1882)
Governor Hugh Smith Thompson (1882-1886)
Governor John C. Sheppard (1886)
Governor John Peter Richardson (1886-1890)
Governor Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1890-1894)
Governor John Gary Evans (1894-1897)
Governor William H. Ellerbe (1897-1899)
Governor Miles B. McSweeney (1899-1903)
Governor Duncan Clinch Heyward (1903-1907)
Governor Martin F. Ansel (1907-1911)
Governor Coleman Livingston Blease (1911-1915)
Governor Richard Irvine Manning (1915-1919)
Governor Robert A. Cooper (1919-1922)
Governor Wilson G. Harvey (1922-1923)
Governor Thomas Gordon McLeod (1923-1927)
Governor John Gardiner Richards (1927-1931)
Governor Ibra C. Blackwood (1931-1935)
Governor Olin D. Johnston (1935-1939)
Governor Burnet R. Maybank (1939-1941)
Governor J. E. Harley (1941-1942)
Governor R. M. Jefferies (1942-1943)
Governor Olin D. Johnston (1943-1945)
Governor Ransome J. Williams (1945-1947)
Governor J. Strom Thurmond (1947-1951)
Governor James F. Byrnes (1951-1955)
Governor George Bell Timmerman, Jr. (1955-1959)
Governor Ernest F. Hollings (1959-1963)
Governor Donald S. Russell (1963-1965)
Governor Robert E. McNair (1965-1971)
Governor John C. West (1971-1975)
Governor James B. Edwards (1975-1979)
Governor Richard W. Riley (1979-1987)
Governor Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. (1987-1995)
Governor David M. Beasley (1995-1999)
Governor James Hovis Hodges (1999-2003)
Governor Mark Sanford (2003-2011)
Governor Nikki R. Haley (2011-2017 )
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