The South Carolina Republican Party is the state affiliate of the national Republican Party in South Carolina. It is one of two major political parties in the state, along with the South Carolina Demo
Congressman Watson in 1965
Former state Party chairman Matt Moore
Senior U.S. Senator Tim Scott
Junior U.S. Senator Darline Graham
Robert Smalls
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Robert Smalls was an American politician who was born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina. During the American Civil War, the still enslaved Smalls commandeered a Confederate transport ship in Ch
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…Mick Mulvaney was elected as the representative of South Carolina's 5th congressional district, the first Republican to represent that district since Robert Smalls, the party's co-founder, last held the seat in 1883. The election of Mulvaney was the first break in 100+ years of Democratic control of the state's…
Portrait by Mathew Brady c. 1875–1879
An article on Smalls published in Harper's Weekly, June 14, 1862
Gillmore's approaches on Fort Wagner, Morris Island, July 1863 before the Second Battle of Fort Wagner. Lighthouse where Smalls served is marked on southern end of Morris Island.
Richard Gleaves, Smalls's business partner after the war