Scope and Contents note This series consists of bills, booklets, a calendar, certificates, clippings, correspondence, forms, lists, memoranda, notes, pamphlets, petitions, photographs, postcards, press releases, receipts, reports, resolutions, speeches/statements, and telegrams.Materials in the series date from 1948-1955 and cover Byrnes’ campaign for, and single term as, governor of the state of South Carolina, with most of the items in the series dating from 1950-1954. While in office, Byrnes focused...

Abstract

The material in the Strom Thurmond Collection Gubernatorial Series includes correspondence (both official and personal), campaign material, speeches and other items documenting Strom Thurmond's term as Governor of South Carolina from 1946-1951. Some of this material was originally part of the holdings of the South Caroliniana Library of The University of South Carolina and the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.

Scope and Content Note The legal records of J. Strom Thurmond consist of three subseries; those concerning his legal practice, legal correspondence as the Edgefield Town and County Attorney, and correspondence concerning Thurmond's activities when serving as Eleventh Circuit Judge. The dates preceding the start of Thurmond's practice in 1930 are recordings of wills and mortgages.The Legal Practice subseries (Subseries A; 7.175 cu. ft.) consists of three sub-subseries: Law Cases, the Record Book, and...