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The Constitution of the State of South Carolina is the governing document of the U.S. state of South Carolina. It describes the structure and function of the state's government. The current constitution took effect on December 4, 1895. South Carolina has had six other constitutions, which were adopted in 1669, 1776, 1778, 1790, 1865 and 1868.
South Carolina was readmitted to the Union on July 9, 1868. [4] Under the first constitution of South Carolina, a president of the state was elected for a term of two years, who then could not run again until four years had passed. The 1865 constitution briefly increased terms to four years, but that was changed in the 1868 constitution back to ...
Solomon Dill. Solomon George Washington Dill (c. 1818 – 1868) was an abolitionist and member of the South Carolina House of Representatives and a delegate of the state's 1868 Constitutional Convention. Though he was white, his supporters included many recently freed African Americans because of his liberal views on equality.
Gannett. Savannah Moss, Greenville News. August 1, 2024 at 2:12 AM. League of Women Voters of South Carolina and the state’s chapter of the ACLU filed a lawsuit on Monday alleging South Carolina ...
Beyond the African-American influence on the 1868 Constitution, there were also 180 black politicians in public office throughout South Carolina. [2] A couple influential scalawags from South Carolina during reconstruction were Franklin J. Moses Jr. and Thomas J Coghlan. South Carolina was a prominent area for the Ku Klux Klan during ...
Benjamin F. Randolph. Benjamin Franklin Randolph (1820 – October 16, 1868) was an American educator, spiritual advisor, newspaper editor who served as a South Carolina state senator during the Reconstruction Era. Randolph was selected to be one of the first African American Electors in the United States at the 1868 Republican National ...
Ammiel J. Willard (June 21, 1822 – May 5, 1900) was a chief justice on the South Carolina Supreme Court. [1] He was born in Albany, New York in 1822. [2] He studied law under Willis Hall, the attorney-general of New York, before being made assistant counsel of New York City in 1848.
The 1868 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held for two days from June 2 to June 3, 1868, to elect the governor of South Carolina; [1] elections for statewide offices were held following the ratification of the South Carolina Constitution of 1868 on April 16. [2] Republican Robert Kingston Scott won the election largely with the support ...