Governors and Lieutenant Governors from Edgefield

A tribute to the Governers

and Lieutenant Governors of South

Carolina who were

natives of or at one time

residents of Edgefield

District or County.

Governors

Andrew Pickens II (1816-18)

George McDuffie (1834-36)

Pierce Mason Butler (1836-38)

James H. Hammond (1842-44)

Francis W. Pickens (1860-62)

Milledge L. Bonham (1862-64)

John C. Sheppard (July-Dec. 1886)

Benjamin R. Tillman (1890-94)

John Gary Evans (1894-96)

James Strom Thurmond (1947-51)

Lieutenant Governors

Eldred Simkins (1812-14)

W.H. Timmerman (1893-96)

James Hammond Tillman (1901-03)

James O. Sheppard (1932-34)

John C. Sheppard (1884-86)

Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 25) near Penn Street (South Carolina Route 23), on the left when traveling west.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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