U.S. Senators from South Carolina, 1789-2020(May beincomplete!) PierceButler 1789-96RalphIzard 1789-95JacobRead 1795-1801JohnHunter 1796-98CharlesPinckney 1798-1801JohnE. Colhoun 1801-02ThomasSumter 1801-10PierceButler 1802-04JohnGaillard 1804-26JohnTaylor 1810-16WilliamSmith 1816-23RobertY. Hayne 1823-32WilliamHarper 1826WilliamSmith 1826-31StephenDecatur Miller 1831-33JohnC. Calhoun 1832-43WilliamC. Preston 1833-42GeorgeMcDuffie 1842-46DanielElliott Huger 1843-45JohnC. Calhoun 1845-50AndrewP. Butler 1846-57FranklinH. Elmore 1850RobertWoodward Barnwell 1850RobertRhett 1850-52WilliamF. DeSaussure 1852-53JosiahJ. Evans 1853-58JamesHenry Hammond 1857-60ArthurP. Hayne 1858JamesChesnut, Jr. 1858-60ThomasJ. Robertson 1868-77FrederickA. Sawyer 1868-73JohnJ. Patterson 1873-79MatthewC. Butler 1877-95WadeHampton 1879-91JohnL. M. Irby 1891-97BenjaminR. Tillman 1895-1918JosephH. Earle 1897JohnL. McLaurin 1897-1903AsburyC. Latimer 1903-08FrankB. Gary 1908-09EllisonD. Smith 1909-44ChristieBenet 1918WilliamP. Pollock 1918-19NathanielB. Dial 1919-25ColemanL. Blease 1925-31JamesF. Byrnes 1931-41AlvaM. Lumpkin 1941RogerC. Peace 1941BurnetR. Maybank 1941-54WiltonE. Hall 1944-45OlinD. Johnston 1945-65CharlesE. Daniel 1954StromThurmond 1954-56ThomasA. Wofford 1956StromThurmond 1956-2003DonaldS. Russell 1965-66ErnestF. Hollings 1966-2005LindseyGraham 2003-JimDeMint 2005-13TimScott 2013- Events and Candidates(may be incomplete!)
1798 Nov 26:JohnHunter, resigned. 1802 Oct 26:JohnE. Colhoun, died in office. 1826 Feb 26:JohnGaillard, died in office. 1842 Nov 29:WilliamC. Preston, resigned. 1845 Mar 3:DanielElliott Huger, resigned. 1850 Mar 31:JohnC. Calhoun, died in office. 1850 May 29:FranklinH. Elmore, died in office. 1857 May 25:AndrewP. Butler, died in office. 1858 May 6:JosiahJ. Evans, died in office. 1858 May 11:ArthurP. Hayne, appointed. 1897 May 20:JosephH. Earle, died in office. 1908 Feb 20:AsburyC. Latimer, died in office. 1914 Nov 3:EllisonD. Smith (Dem), elected unopposed. 1918 Jul 3:BenjaminR. Tillman, died in office. 1918 Nov 5:NathanielB. Dial (Dem), elected unopposed. 1918 Nov 5:WilliamP. Pollock (Dem), elected unopposed. 1920 Nov 2:EllisonD. Smith (Dem), elected unopposed. 1924:JamesF. Byrnes (Dem), defeated for nomination;NathanielB. Dial (Dem), defeated for nomination. 1924 Nov 4:ColemanL. Blease (Dem), elected unopposed. 1926:EdgarA. Brown, defeated for nomination. 1926 Nov 2:EllisonD. Smith (Dem), elected unopposed. 1930 Nov 4:JamesF. Byrnes (Dem), elected unopposed. 1936:ThomasPorcher Stoney (Dem), defeated in primary. 1936 Nov 3:JamesF. Byrnes (Dem), elected;JosephA. Tolbert (Rep), defeated;MarionW. Seabrook (Rep), defeated. 1938:EdgarA. Brown, defeated for nomination. 1938 Nov 8:EllisonD. Smith (Dem), elected;J.D. E. Meyer (Rep), defeated. 1941 Aug 1:AlvaM. Lumpkin, died in office. 1942 Aug 25:EugeneS. Blease (Dem), defeated in primary. 1942 Nov 3:BurnetR. Maybank (Dem), elected unopposed. 1944 Nov 17:EllisonD. Smith, died in office. 1948:W.J. Bryan Dorn, defeated for nomination. 1950 Nov 7:OlinD. Johnston (Dem), elected unopposed. 1954 Sep 1:BurnetR. Maybank, died in office. 1965 Apr 18:OlinD. Johnston, died in office. 1966 Nov 8:StromThurmond (Rep), elected;P.Bradley Morrah, Jr. (Dem), defeated. 1966 Nov 8:ErnestF. Hollings (Dem), elected;MarshallJ. Parker (Rep), defeated. 1968 Nov 5:ErnestF. Hollings (Dem), elected;MarshallJ. Parker (Rep), defeated. 1972 Nov 7:StromThurmond (Rep), elected;NickZeigler (Dem), defeated. 1974 Nov 5:ErnestF. Hollings (Dem), elected;GwenBush (Rep), defeated;HaroldHough (Ind), defeated. 1978 Nov 7:StromThurmond (Rep), elected;CharlesD. Ravenel (Dem), defeated. 1980 Nov 4:ErnestF. Hollings (Dem), elected;MarshallT. Mays (Rep), defeated. 1984 Jun 12:MelvinPurvis (Dem), nominated;CecilJ. Williams (Dem), defeated in primary. 1984 Jun 12:StromThurmond (Rep), nominated;RobertCunningham (Rep), defeated in primary. 1984 Nov 6:StromThurmond (Rep), elected;MelvinPurvis (Dem), defeated;StephenDavis (Libertarian), defeated. 1986 Jun 10:HenryS. Jordan (Rep), defeated in primary. 1986 Nov 4:ErnestF. Hollings (Dem), elected;HenryD. McMaster (Rep), defeated;SteveVandervelde (Libertarian), defeated;RayHillyard (American), defeated. 1990 Nov 6:StromThurmond (Rep), elected;RobertCunningham (Dem), defeated;WilliamH. Griffin (Libertarian), defeated;MarionC. Metts (American), defeated. 1992 Nov 3:ErnestF. Hollings (Dem), elected;TommyHartnett (Rep), defeated;MarkJohnson (Libertarian), defeated;RobertBarnwell Clarkson II (American), defeated. 1996 Jun 4:ElliotClose (Dem), nominated;CecilJ. Williams (Dem), defeated in primary. 1996 Nov 5:StromThurmond (Rep), elected;ElliotClose (Dem), defeated;RichardT. Quillian (Libertarian), defeated;PeterJ. Ashy (Reform), defeated;AnnetteC. Estes (Natural Law), defeated. 1998 Nov 3:ErnestF. Hollings (Dem), elected;BobInglis (Rep), defeated;RichardT. Quillian (Libertarian), defeated. 2002 Nov 5:LindseyGraham (Rep), elected;AlexSanders (Dem), defeated;TedAdams (Constitution), defeated;VictorL. Kocher (Libertarian), defeated. 2004:ThomasRavenel (Rep), defeated in primary. 2008 Jun 15:RobertM. Conley (Dem), nominated;MichaelCone (Dem), defeated in primary. 2008 Nov 4:RobertM. Conley (Dem), defeated. 2013 Jan 3:TimScott, appointed. 2014:LeeBright (Rep), defeated in primary. 2014:ThomasRavenel (Ind), defeated. 2014 Jun 10:BillConnor (Rep), defeated in primary. 2014 Nov 4:TimScott (Rep), elected. 2016 Nov 8:TimScott (Rep), elected. 2020 Nov 3:JaimeR. Harrison (Dem), defeated. | |