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A cooperationist earlier in his career, Magrath supported secession by 1860, feeling “an assurance of what will be the action of the State.”

Known for his temper, Maham once forced a deputy sheriff to eat and swallow a summons the latter was trying to serve on him.

Black and white photograph of the Main Street iron bridge crossing the flooded Reedy River. Camperdown Mill in background.

Malaria was arguably the most significant disease in the history of South Carolina from the colonial period until the early twentieth century.

Manchester State Forest includes several historical sites, including Bellfield, the home of Richard I. Manning, governor of South Carolina from 1915 to 1919. Except for salaries of forest workers, Manchester is completely self-supporting.

Manigault brought to Charleston an architectural conception that bridged the Anglo-Palladianism of the mid–eighteenth century and the emergence of the Greek revival in the 1820s.

Manigault rose from modest origins to become the leading merchant and private banker of colonial South Carolina.

Most of what is known about Manigault comes from a letter she wrote from South Carolina to her brother in Europe.

Although Manigault did not actively practice law, his legal training enabled him to pursue a political career, collect debts owed to London merchants, and manage the South Carolina business and plantation interests of absentee landowners.

Mann was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1968 and served from 1969 to 1979. His most notable service was as a member of the Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of Richard Nixon.