Bernard Baruch, 12/11/20 from the National Photo Company. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Meet South Carolinians who have become well-known for their roles in state and national government.

• Joseph Alston
• Bernard Baruch
• Ben Bernanke
• Preston Brooks
• Pierce Butler
• James F. Byrnes
• John Caldwell Calhoun
• Carroll Campbell
• Francis Cardozo
• Daniel Henry Chamberlain
• Thomas Green Clemson
• William Henry Drayton
• Robert Brown Elliott
• Edward C. Elmore
• Christopher Gadsden
• James Gadsden
• William Henry Gist
• Johnson Hagood
• James Hammond
• Wade Hampton III
• Thomas Heyward, Jr.
• Fritz Hollings
• Andrew Jackson
• Jesse Jackson
• William Johnson, Jr.
• Henry Laurens
• Thomas Lynch, Jr.
• Andrew Gordon Magrath
• Arthur Middleton
• I. DeQuincey Newman
• Andrew Pickens
• Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
• Charles Pinckney
• Melvin Purvis
• Joseph Hayne Rainey
• John Gardiner Richards, Jr.
• Richard Wilson Riley
• Edward Rutledge
• John Rutledge
• Robert Smalls
• Strom Thurmond
• Benjamin Ryan Tillman
• J. Waties Waring
• Charles S. West
• John C. West
• Jonathan Jasper Wright