Portraits of noted Carolinians are listed alphabetically.
This image courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Perry D. Gilreath was elected Sheriff of Greenville County in 1877, a position he held until his retirement in 1900. He was particularly noted, in an era when many South Carolina politicians were...
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James Glen (1701-1777) served as one of South Carolina's most effective colonial governors. Born in Scotland, appointed governor in 1738, he arrived in the colony in 1743 and served until 1756, longer...
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Nathanael Greene (1742-1786) was raised in New England in a Quaker family, but helped organize local Rhode Island militia when the revolution approached, and in 1775 was appointed the commander of a...
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Maxcy Gregg (1814-1862) was born in Columbia, educated at South Carolina College, and admitted to the Columbia bar in 1839. He served as a Major in Milledge Bonham's Mexican War regiment, and argued...
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William Gregg (1800-1897), who introduced the cotton textile industry into South Carolina, was born near Carmicheals, West Virginia, where he received no formal education. During his youth, he held an...
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Anne King Gregorie (1887-1960), born in Porcher's Bluff near Mt. Pleasant, made significant contributions to the understanding and promotion of South Carolina history. A graduate of Winthrop College...
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Marion Gressett (1902-1984) and Hyman Rubin (1913- ) confer on strategy, January 31, 1978. Gressett, elected to the state Senate from Calhoun County in 1937, was known as the "Silver Fox" for his...
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Sarah Moore Grimké (1792-1873) and her sister Angeline Emily Grimké (1805-1879) were abolitionists and advocates of women's rights. Born into a wealthy and aristocratic family from Charleston, the...
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Mrs. John Facheraud Grimké (Mary Moore Smith) (1764-1839) was portrayed by the miniaturist Pierre Henri in 1791. The daughter of a wealthy banker, she married the planter John Grimké in 1784, and bore...
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Jane Bruce Guignard (1874-1960) was born in Aiken County, educated at the College for Women in Columbia (see Chicora College), and in 1900 entered the Women's Medical College in Philadelphia. She...