Members of the
87th General Assembly - 1947 to 1948 |
This 87th General Assembly convened
in two regular sessions: The first session was held from January
14th to May 14th in 1947. The second session was held from January
13th to April 15th in 1948. |
Election District |
Senate |
House of Representatives |
Abbeville County |
John Moore Mars |
Marvin Eugene Crawford |
Robert Stone Galloway |
Aiken County |
Frederick Cannon Brinkley |
Charles Earl Simons, Jr. |
Delmus Irving Weeks |
Leonard Austin Williamson |
Allendale County |
James Martin Thomas |
George Warren, Jr. |
Anderson County |
James Burriss Pruitt |
Edgar Harrison Agnew |
Nathan Evander Cartee |
Ray Columbus Hilliard |
James Byrum Lawson |
Carl Ray McGuire (1) / Floyd Eugene Wright (2) |
William Harper Welborn |
Bamberg County |
James Carlisle Kearse |
Fred Leroy Hiers |
Barnwell County |
Edgar Allen Brown** |
Solomon Blatt |
Beaufort County |
William Brantley Harvey |
Thomas Legare Rodgers |
Calhoun Thomas |
Berkeley County |
Rembert Coney Dennis |
Claudius Garnett Bradwell |
Mark Elton Mitchum |
Calhoun County |
Lawrence Marion Gressette |
David Derrick Buyck |
Charleston County |
Oliver Thornwell Wallace |
Arthur Henry Burton |
Nathaniel Wilson Cabell |
Thomas Allen Legare, Jr. |
Lionel Kennedy Legge |
William Henry McDaniel |
Robert Barnwell Stall, Jr. |
Joseph Franklin Wise, Jr. |
Thomas William Young |
Cherokee County |
George Washington McKown |
Edward Jefferson Clary |
Jefferson Davis Parris |
Chester County |
Wilbur Gill Grant |
James Carl Gibson |
Robert Witherspoon Hemphill |
Chesterfield County |
William Leland Rivers |
Paul McManus Arant |
Thomas Beck Ingram |
Clarendon County |
James Hugh McFaddin |
Frederick Lesesne |
Charles Nelson Plowden |
Colleton County |
Richard Manning Jefferies |
Isadore Bogoslow |
Edgar Virgil Perry |
Darlington County |
James Pierce Mozingo, III |
William James Carter |
Edward Colgate Dennis, Jr. |
Franklin Bannon Hines (3) / William Egleston (4) |
Dillon County |
David Smith Allen |
James Breeden Gibson |
Roger William Scott |
Dorchester County |
James Dantzler Parler |
Hubert Wiley Smoak |
Edgefield County |
William Preston Yonce |
Thomas Benjamin Greneker (5) / Joseph William Cox
(6) |
Fairfield County |
James Morris Lyles |
Boyd Brown (7) |
Henry Norwood Obear |
Florence County |
Peter Hector McEachin |
Philip Heller Arrowsmith |
Gordon Badger Baker (8) |
Herbert Thomas Floyd |
William Clyde Graham |
Richard Allston Palmer |
Georgetown County |
Olin Sawyer |
James Brown Morrison* |
John Henning Porter |
Greenville County |
Ray Robinson Williams |
LeRoy Anderson |
Marion Brawley, Jr. |
William Eugene Chandler, Jr. |
Benton Mendenhall Gibson |
William Marion Gresham |
Ansel Montgomery Hawkins |
Thomas Manly Hudson |
Patrick Bradley Morrah, Jr. |
Charles Arthur Rice (9) |
Greenwood County |
Calhoun Allen Mays |
James Perrin Anderson |
Samuel Horace Benjamin |
George Preston Callison |
Hampton County |
George Warren |
John Morrison Tuten |
Horry County |
Frank Austin Thompson |
Doc David Harrelson |
Robert Clifton Page |
Bayliss Larkin Spivey |
Jasper County |
William Jefferson Ellis |
Delmar Newlin Rivers |
Kershaw County |
William Townley Redfearn (10) /
Robert MacMillan Kennedy, Jr. (11) |
James Clator Arrants |
Arthur L. Jones |
Lancaster County |
Willie Bruce Wiliams |
James Henry Howey |
James Erskine Thompson |
Laurens County |
Otto Langdon Long |
Walter L. Martin |
Charles Llewellyn Milam |
Robert Claude Wasson |
Lee County |
William Peebles Baskin |
Hugh Richardson Colclough |
Charles Marion Mimms |
Lexington County |
Ryan Milo Smith |
McKendree Barr |
Asbury Francis Lever, Jr. |
Marion County |
Earle Rogers Ellerby |
John Ralph Gasque |
James Curtis Hooks |
Marlboro County |
Paul Allen Wallace |
Josiah James Evans |
Ellis Michael O'Tuel, Jr. |
McCormick County |
Lawrence Lamar Hester |
Hugh Cook Brown |
Newberry County |
Marvin Eugene Abrams |
Russell Aubrey Harley |
Thomas Harrington Pope |
Oconee
County |
James Lewis Rowland |
John Alexander Knox |
John Pat Miley |
Orangeburg County |
Thomas Braxton Bryant, Jr. |
James Moncrief Brailsford, Jr. |
Charlton Bowen Horger |
Hugo Sheridan Sims, Jr. |
Marshall Burns Williams |
Pickens County |
Thomas Bailey Nalley |
Dwight Andrew Holder |
Theron P. Kelly |
Richland County |
Yancey Alford McLeod |
John Clarke DuPre |
S. Rhea Haskell |
Zach McGhee |
John Gregg McMaster |
Francis Lesly Rawl |
Claud Napoleon Sapp, Jr. |
Adolphus Fletcher Spigner, Jr. |
Saluda County |
Homer Rauch Long |
Thomas Wainwright Blease |
Spartanburg County |
Howard Wofford McCravy |
Thomas Bothwell Butler |
Tracy Jackson Gaines |
Thomas Judson Hendrix |
Cameron Bruce Littlejohn |
Paul Stanley McChesney, Jr. |
Arnold Ross Merchant |
Walter Brown Miller |
Matthew Poliakoff |
Sumter County |
Shepard Kollock Nash |
Wayne Law Clifton |
Charles Lynum Cuttino |
Henry Laval Jackson |
Union County |
Bruce Welborn White |
John Raymond Flynn |
Robert Lee Wilburn |
Williamsburg County |
Edward Williams Cantwell |
Bradford O'Neal Browder |
Louis LeMaire Lesesne |
Laurie Samuel Rogerson |
York County |
Joseph Rodney Moss (12) |
James Davidson Grist, Jr. |
William Lewis Wallace |
Robert Miller Ward |
James Moffatt Wylie |
* James Brown Morrison was elected
as Speaker of the House. James Edwin Hunter, Jr. was elected
as Clerk. |
** Edgar Allen Brown was elected
President Pro Tempore of the Senate. James Henry Fowles was elected
as Clerk. |
(1) Resigned on June 2, 1947 to join
the SC Constabulary. |
(2) Elected to replace Carl Ray McGuire,
qualified on 1/13/1948. |
(3) Elected to the SC Public Service
Commission for the 6th Judicial Circuit on January 22, 1947,
and resigned from the House on January 27, 1947. |
(4) Elected to replace Franklin Bannon
Hines, qualified on 2/26/1947. |
(5) Elected as a Judge of the 11th
Judicial Circuit of SC on February 5, 1947, and resigned from
the House on April 8, 1947. |
(6) Elected to replace Thomas Benjamin
Greneker, qualified on 5/6/1947. |
(7) Resigned on April 15, 1948 after
being elected to the SC Highway Commission from the 6th Judicial
Circuit. |
(8) Elected as a Judge of the 12th
Judicial Circuit of SC on February 4, 1948. |
(9) Elected as a Member of the SC
Public Service Commission on March 16, 1948 and resigned from
the House on April 10, 1948. |
(10) William Townley Redfearn died
on January 3, 1947, before the first session began. |
(11) Elected to replace William Townley
Redfearn, qualified on 2/4/1947. |
(12) Elected as a Judge of the 6th
Judicial Circuit on January 14, 1948, and resigned from the Senate
at the end of the second session. |