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On March 22, 1804, Johnson became the first Democratic- Republican to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Henrietta Dering painted pastel portraits, mostly of members of her husband’s extended family, which included such noted individuals as the Earl of Barrymore and Sir John Percival (later the Earl of Egmont).

Defeating his one-time hero Cole Blease, Johnston was elected governor in 1934. “This marks the end of ring rule,” Johnston declared at his January 1935 inauguration.

After dissolving their partnership, Jones and Lee followed remarkably similar paths. Both remained in Charleston and continued to practice architecture, then served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and later went west.

In 1802 Jones broadened his entrepreneurial efforts by investing in real estate in Charleston and on Sullivan’s Island. His endeavors evidently flourished, for in 1807 he began to buy slaves to assist him in his business ventures.

Jordan’s most famous literary accomplishment, the “Wheel of Time” series, debuted in 1990 with the publication of The Eye of the World.

Joseph LeConte was a professor of chemistry and geology at South Carolina College from 1857 to 1869.

By 1920 the house had become a tenement and was threatened with demolition.

Handwritten note on back of photo: "Manigault, Joseph House, 350 Meeting St. built ca. 1802."

Handwritten note on back of photo: "Manigault, Joseph House, 350 Meeting St. built ca. 1803."

Typewritten note on back of photo: "South Carolina. Architecture. STAIRWAY, JOSEPH MANIGAULT HOUSE (1790-97), CHARLESTON. Designed by Gabriel Manigault. Photo by W. Lincoln Highton; courtesy of the Federal Works Agency."

In a photo taken between 1941 and 1944, a staff member believed to be Joshua Jenkins, works in Belle Baruch’s victory garden at Bellefield Plantation on Hobcaw Barony. In the background on the left is the rear kitchen wing of Superintendent Joe Vereen’s house and on the extreme right, his family’s outhouse.

Joyner has published numerous books, co-edited many more, frequently contributed chapters, and written articles for such scholarly journals as the Southern Quarterly, Callaloo, and the American Historical Review.

Following a model that is present in every state, the South Carolina judicial system is now structured hierarchically. The two highest courts are both appellate bodies, meaning that they almost exclusively adjudicate cases that have been referred to them from lower courts.