List of University of South Carolina people
Faculty and administrators -- Former faculty and administrators
Table:
Name

Year issued

Notes

Reference

John Drayton

1807

Governor of South Carolina; pushed for the foundation of South Carolina College to unite the state

[259]

Moses Waddel

1807

educator in South Carolina and Georgia

[311]

Thomas Cooper

1833

President of the University of South Carolina

[312]

Robert Woodward Barnwell

1842

President of the University of South Carolina

[313]

Thomas Green Clemson

1886

agriculturalist

[citation needed]

Ellison Capers

1888

Confederate general during the American Civil War

[citation needed]

Joseph B. Kershaw

1893

Confederate general during the American Civil War

[314]

Hugh Smith Thompson

1900

Governor of South Carolina

[citation needed]

James F. Byrnes

Governor of South Carolina

[315]

Helen Hayes

1979

actress

[316]

George W. Bush

2003

President of the United States; first commencement speaker at Colonial Life Arena

[citation needed]

Chris Matthews

2006

TV talk-show host and pundit

[citation needed]

Ben Bernanke

2010

Federal Reserve Chairman

[citation needed]

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John Drayton ( June 22 , 1766 - November 27 , 1822 ) was Governor of South Carolina and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina .
The governor of the State of South Carolina is the head of state for the state of South Carolina . Under the South Carolina Constitution , the governor is also the head of government , serving as the chief executive of the South Carolina executive branch . The governor is the ex officio commander-in-chief of the National Guard when not called into federal use . The governor 's responsibilities include making yearly State of the State addresses to the South Carolina General Assembly , submitting an executive budget and ensuring that state laws are enforced . The 117th and current governor of South Carolina is Henry McMaster , who is serving his first elected term . He assumed the office on January 24 , 2017 , after Nikki Haley resigned to become the United States ambassador to the United Nations . He won the 2018 gubernatorial election .
Moses Waddel ( June 20 , 1770 - July 21 , 1840 ) was an American educator , minister , and slave owner in antebellum Georgia and South Carolina . Famous as a teacher during his life , Moses Waddel was author of the bestselling book Memoirs of the Life of Miss Caroline Elizabeth Smelt .
A teacher ( also called a school teacher or , in some contexts , an educator ) is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge , competence or virtue . Informally the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone ( e.g . when showing a colleague how to perform a specific task ) . In some countries , teaching young people of school age may be carried out in an informal setting , such as within the family ( homeschooling ) , rather than in a formal setting such as a school or college . Some other professions may involve a significant amount of teaching ( e.g . youth worker , pastor ) . In most countries , formal teaching of students is usually carried out by paid professional teachers . This article focuses on those who are employed , as their main role , to teach others in a formal education context , such as at a school or other place of initial formal education or training .
South Carolina ( /ˌkærəˈlaɪnə/ ( listen ) ) is a state in the Southeastern United States and the easternmost of the Deep South . It is bordered to the north by North Carolina , to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean , and to the southwest by Georgia across the Savannah River . South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution on May 23 , 1788 . It also became the first state to vote in favor of secession from the Union on December 20 , 1860 . After the American Civil War , it was readmitted into the United States on June 25 , 1868 . South Carolina is the 40th most extensive and 23rd most populous U.S. state . Its GDP as of 2013 was $ 183.6 billion , with an annual growth rate of 3.13% . South Carolina is composed of 46 counties . The capital is Columbia with a population of 133,451 in 2018 ; while its largest city is Charleston with a 2018 population of 136,208 . The Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin metropolitan area is the largest in the state , with a 2018 population estimate of 906,626 . South Carolina is named in honor of King Charles I of England , who first formed the English colony , with Carolus being Latin for Charles .
Georgia ( /ˈdʒɔːrdʒə/ ) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States . Georgia is the 24th largest in area and 8th-most populous of the 50 United States . Georgia is bordered to the north by Tennessee and North Carolina , to the northeast by South Carolina , to the southeast by the Atlantic Ocean , to the south by Florida , and to the west by Alabama . Its 2019 estimated population was 10,617,423 , according to the U.S. Census Bureau . Atlanta , a beta ( + ) global city , is both the state 's capital and its largest city . The Atlanta metropolitan area , with an estimated population of 5.9 million people in 2018 , is the 9th most populous metropolitan area in the United States and contains about 56% of the entire state population . Founded in 1733 as a British colony , Georgia was the last and southernmost of the original Thirteen Colonies to be established . Named after King George II of Great Britain , the Colony of Georgia covered the area from South Carolina south to Spanish Florida and west to French Louisiana at the Mississippi River . On January 2 , 1788 , Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution . From 1802 to 1804 , western Georgia was split to form the Mississippi Territory , which later was admitted as the U.S. states of Alabama and Mississippi . Georgia declared its secession from the Union on January 19 , 1861 , and was one of the original seven Confederate States . Following the Civil War , it was the last state to be restored to the Union , on July 15 , 1870 .
Thomas Cooper ( October 22 , 1759 - May 11 , 1839 ) was an Anglo-American economist , college president and political philosopher . Cooper was described by Thomas Jefferson as one of the ablest men in America and by John Adams as a learned ingenious scientific and talented madcap . Dumas Malone stated that modern scientific progress would have been impossible without the freedom of the mind which he championed throughout life . His ideas were taken very seriously in his own time : there were substantial reviews of his writings , and some late eighteenth-century critics of materialism directed their arguments against Cooper , rather than against the better-known Joseph Priestley .
The following are the presidents of the University of South Carolina from its founding as South Carolina College in 1801 to the present day .
Robert Woodward Barnwell ( August 10 , 1801 - November 5 , 1882 ) was an American planter , lawyer , and educator from South Carolina who served as a Senator in both the United States Senate and that of the Confederate States of America .
Thomas Green Clemson , ( July 1 , 1807 - April 6 , 1888 ) was an American politician and statesman , serving as an ambassador and the United States Superintendent of Agriculture . He served in the Confederate States Army . He founded Clemson University in South Carolina .
Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact , natural , economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture . ( Veterinary science , but not animal science , is often excluded from the definition . )
Ellison Capers ( October 14 , 1837 - April 22 , 1908 ) was a Confederate general in the American Civil War , theologian , college Professor and administrator from South Carolina .
The Confederate States Army was the military land force of the Confederate States of America ( commonly referred to as the Confederacy ) during the American Civil War ( 1861-1865 ) , fighting against the United States forces . On February 28 , 1861 , the Provisional Confederate Congress established a provisional volunteer army and gave control over military operations and authority for mustering state forces and volunteers to the newly chosen Confederate president , Jefferson Davis . Davis was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy , and colonel of a volunteer regiment during the Mexican-American War . He had also been a United States Senator from Mississippi and U.S. Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce . On March 1 , 1861 , on behalf of the Confederate government , Davis assumed control of the military situation at Charleston , South Carolina , where South Carolina state militia besieged Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor , held by a small U.S. Army garrison . By March 1861 , the Provisional Confederate Congress expanded the provisional forces and established a more permanent Confederate States Army . An accurate count of the total number of individuals who served in the Confederate Army is not possible due to incomplete and destroyed Confederate records ; estimates of the number of individual Confederate soldiers are between 750,000 and 1,000,000 men . This does not include an unknown number of slaves who were pressed into performing various tasks for the army , such as construction of fortifications and defenses or driving wagons . Since these figures include estimates of the total number of individual soldiers who served at any time during the war , they do not represent the size of the army at any given date . These numbers do not include men who served in Confederate States Navy . Although most of the soldiers who fought in the American Civil War were volunteers , both sides by 1862 resorted to conscription , primarily as a means to force men to register and to volunteer . In the absence of exact records , estimates of the percentage of Confederate soldiers who were draftees are about double the 6 percent of United States soldiers who were conscripts .
The American Civil War ( also known by other names ) was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865 , fought between the northern United States ( loyal to the Union ) and the southern United States ( that had seceded from the Union and formed the Confederacy ) . [ e ] The civil war began primarily as a result of the long-standing controversy over the enslavement of black people . War broke out in April 1861 when secessionist forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina shortly after Abraham Lincoln had been inaugurated as the President of the United States . The loyalists of the Union in the North , which also included some geographically western and southern states , proclaimed support for the Constitution . They faced secessionists of the Confederate States in the South , who advocated for states ' rights in order to uphold slavery . Of the 34 U.S. states in February 1861 , seven Southern slave states were declared by their state governments to have seceded from the country , and the Confederate States of America was organized in rebellion against the U.S. constitutional government . The Confederacy grew to control at least a majority of territory in eleven states , and it claimed the additional states of Kentucky and Missouri by assertions from native secessionists fleeing Union authority . These states were given full representation in the Confederate Congress throughout the Civil War . The two remaining slave states , Delaware and Maryland , were invited to join the Confederacy , but nothing substantial developed due to intervention by federal troops . The Confederate states were never diplomatically recognized as a joint entity by the government of the United States , nor by that of any foreign country . [ f ] The states that remained loyal to the U.S. were known as the Union . [ g ] The Union and the Confederacy quickly raised volunteer and conscription armies that fought mostly in the South over the course of four years .
Joseph Brevard Kershaw ( January 5 , 1822 - April 13 , 1894 ) was a lawyer , judge , and a Confederate general in the American Civil War .
Hugh Smith Thompson ( January 24 , 1836 - November 20 , 1904 ) was the 81st Governor of South Carolina , from 1882 to 1886 . Born in Charleston , Thompson graduated from the South Carolina Military Academy ( now The Citadel ) in 1856 and was an instructor at the Arsenal Academy from 1858 to 1861 . Leading a battalion of Citadel cadets on January 9 , 1861 , they fired the first shots of the American Civil War when they opened fire on the Union ship Star of the West entering Charleston 's harbor . For the remainder of the war , he served as an instructor of the cadets at the Citadel Academy . At the end of hostilities in 1865 , Thompson became the Principal of Columbia Male Academy until 1880 . In 1876 , he was nominated by the state Democrats for the position of Superintendent of Education which he won upon the resolution of the controversial gubernatorial election in the favor of Wade Hampton and the Democrats . He was reelected in 1878 and 1880 without opposition and in 1882 Thompson lobbied for the presidency of South Carolina College . However , he emerged as a dark horse candidate for governor after the split of the state Democrats between John Bratton and John Doby Kennedy . After the second ballot at the nominating convention , both Bratton and Kennedy withdrew their names and Thompson became the Democratic candidate for the gubernatorial election of 1882 . Thompson easily won the general election against J. Hendrix McLane and became the 81st governor of South Carolina . He was reelected without opposition in the gubernatorial election of 1884 and his time as governor was marked by stability of the state and unity within the Democratic party . Upon being appointed in 1886 by President Grover Cleveland to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury , Thompson resigned as governor .
James Francis Byrnes ( US : /ˈbɜːrnz/ ; May 2 , 1882 - April 9 , 1972 ) was an American judge and politician from the state of South Carolina . A member of the Democratic Party , Byrnes served in Congress , the executive branch , and on the United States Supreme Court . He was also the 104th Governor of South Carolina , making him one of the very few politicians to serve in all three branches of the American federal government while also being active in state government . Born and raised in Charleston , South Carolina , Byrnes pursued a legal career with the help of his cousin , Governor Miles Benjamin McSweeney . Byrnes won election to the United States House of Representatives , serving from 1911 to 1925 . He became a close ally of President Woodrow Wilson and a protégé of Senator Benjamin Tillman . He sought election to the United States Senate in 1924 , but narrowly lost a run-off election to Coleman Livingston Blease , who had the backing of the Ku Klux Klan . After the loss , Byrnes moved his law practice to Spartanburg , South Carolina and prepared for a political comeback . He narrowly defeated Blease in the 1930 Democratic primary and joined the Senate in 1931 . Historian George E. Mowry called Byrnes the most influential Southern member of Congress between John Calhoun and Lyndon Johnson . In the Senate , Byrnes supported the policies of his long-time friend , President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Byrnes championed the New Deal and sought federal investment in South Carolina water projects .
Helen Hayes MacArthur ( née Brown ; October 10 , 1900 - March 17 , 1993 ) was an American actress whose career spanned 80 years . She eventually received the nickname First Lady of American Theatre and was one of 15 people who have won an Emmy , a Grammy , an Oscar , and a Tony Award ( an EGOT ) . Hayes also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom , America 's highest civilian honor , from President Ronald Reagan in 1986 . In 1988 , she was awarded the National Medal of Arts . The annual Helen Hayes Awards , which have recognized excellence in professional theatre in greater Washington , DC , since 1984 , are her namesake . In 1955 , the former Fulton Theatre on 46th Street in New York City 's Broadway Theater District was renamed the Helen Hayes Theatre . When that venue was torn down in 1982 , the nearby Little Theatre was renamed in her honor . Helen Hayes is regarded as one of the greatest leading ladies of the 20th-century theatre .
An actor is a person who portrays a character in a performance ( also actress ; see below ) . The actor performs in the flesh in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film , radio , and television . The analogous Greek term is ὑποκριτής ( hupokritḗs ) , literally one who answers . The actor 's interpretation of their role - the art of acting - pertains to the role played , whether based on a real person or fictional character . Interpretation occurs even when the actor is playing themselves , as in some forms of experimental performance art . Formerly , in ancient Greece and Rome , the medieval world , and the time of William Shakespeare , only men could become actors , and women 's roles were generally played by men or boys . After the English Restoration of 1660 , women began to appear on stage in England . In modern times , particularly in pantomime and some operas , women occasionally play the roles of boys or young men .
George Walker Bush ( born July 6 , 1946 ) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 . A member of the Republican Party , he had previously served as the 46th governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000 . Bush is frequently referred to as George W. Bush , Bush Junior , or Bush 43 to distinguish him from his father , George H. W. Bush , who served as the 41st president of the United States from 1989 to 1993 . Bush is the eldest son of Barbara and George H. W. Bush , and the second son to become the American president after his father , the first being John Quincy Adams . After graduating from Yale University in 1968 and Harvard Business School in 1975 , he worked in the oil industry . Bush married Laura Welch in 1977 and unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. House of Representatives shortly thereafter . He later co-owned the Texas Rangers baseball team before defeating Ann Richards in the 1994 Texas gubernatorial election . Bush was elected president of the United States in 2000 when he defeated Democratic incumbent Vice President Al Gore after a narrow and contested win that involved a Supreme Court decision to stop a recount in Florida . He became the fourth person to be elected president while receiving fewer popular votes than his opponent . In response to the September 11 terrorist attacks , Bush launched a War on Terror that began with the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and later expanded to the Iraq War in 2003 . Signature legislation passed during his presidency included broad tax cuts , the Patriot Act , the No Child Left Behind Act , the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act , the Medicare Modernization Act , and funding for the AIDS relief program known as PEPFAR . In the 2004 presidential race , Bush defeated Democratic Senator John Kerry in a close election .
The president of the United States ( POTUS ) [ B ] is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America . The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces . In contemporary times , the president is looked upon as one of the world 's most powerful political figures as the leader of the only remaining global superpower . The role includes responsibility for the world 's most expensive military , which has the second largest nuclear arsenal . The president also leads the nation with the largest economy by nominal GDP . The president possesses significant domestic and international hard and soft power . Article II of the Constitution establishes the executive branch of the federal government . It vests the executive power of the United States in the president . The power includes the execution and enforcement of federal law , alongside the responsibility of appointing federal executive , diplomatic , regulatory and judicial officers , and concluding treaties with foreign powers with the advice and consent of the Senate . The president is further empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves , and to convene and adjourn either or both houses of Congress under extraordinary circumstances . The president directs the foreign and domestic policies of the United States , and takes an active role in promoting his policy priorities to members of Congress . In addition , as part of the system of checks and balances , Article I , Section 7 of the Constitution gives the president the power to sign or veto federal legislation .
The Colonial Life Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Columbia , South Carolina , primarily home to the University of South Carolina men 's and women 's basketball teams . Opened as a replacement for the Carolina Coliseum with the name Carolina Center in 2002 , the 18,000-seat arena is also host to various events like conferences , concerts , and graduation ceremonies throughout the year . It is the largest arena in the state of South Carolina and the eighth largest campus college arena . The naming rights were acquired in 2003 by Unum , a Portland , Maine-based insurance company , and it was renamed to the Colonial Center after the Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company , a Unum subsidiary headquartered in Columbia . On July 22 , 2008 , the USC board approved renaming the building to the Colonial Life Arena as part of the rebranding by Unum ( which by then had moved to Chattanooga , Tennessee ) of Colonial Life & Accident as Colonial Life .
Christopher John Matthews ( born December 17 , 1945 ) is an American political commentator , talk show host , and author . Matthews hosts his weeknight hour-long talk show , Hardball with Chris Matthews , on MSNBC . From 2002 to 2013 , Matthews hosted a syndicated NBC News-produced panel discussion program on weekends titled The Chris Matthews Show . Matthews regularly appears on other NBC and MSNBC news programs as well .
A pundit is a person who offers to mass media their opinion or commentary on a particular subject area ( most typically political analysis , the social sciences , technology or sport ) on which they are knowledgeable ( or can at least appear to be knowledgeable ) , or considered a scholar in said area . The term has been increasingly applied to popular media personalities . In certain cases , it may be used in a derogatory manner as well , as the political equivalent of ideologue .
Ben Shalom Bernanke ( /bərˈnæŋki/ bər-NANG-kee ; born December 13 , 1953 ) is an American economist at the Brookings Institution who served two terms as Chair of the Federal Reserve , the central bank of the United States , from 2006 to 2014 . During his tenure as chair , Bernanke oversaw the Federal Reserve 's response to the late-2000s financial crisis . Before becoming Federal Reserve chair , Bernanke was a tenured professor at Princeton University and chaired the department of economics there from 1996 to September 2002 , when he went on public service leave . From August 5 , 2002 until June 21 , 2005 , he was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System , proposed the Bernanke Doctrine , and first discussed the Great Moderation - the theory that traditional business cycles have declined in volatility in recent decades through structural changes that have occurred in the international economy , particularly increases in the economic stability of developing nations , diminishing the influence of macroeconomic ( monetary and fiscal ) policy . Bernanke then served as chairman of President George W. Bush 's Council of Economic Advisers before President Bush nominated him to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the United States Federal Reserve . His first term began February 1 , 2006 . Bernanke was confirmed for a second term as chairman on January 28 , 2010 , after being renominated by President Barack Obama , who later referred to him as the epitome of calm . His second term ended January 31 , 2014 , when he was succeeded by Janet Yellen on February 3 , 2014 . Bernanke wrote about his time as chairman of the Federal Reserve in his 2015 book , The Courage to Act , in which he revealed that the world 's economy came close to collapse in 2007 and 2008 . Bernanke asserts that it was only the novel efforts of the Fed ( cooperating with other agencies and agencies of foreign governments ) that prevented an economic catastrophe greater than the Great Depression .
The Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the Federal Reserve , which is the central banking system of the United States . The position is known colloquially as Chair of the Fed or Fed Chair . The chair is the active executive officer of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System . The chair reports to Congress twice a year on progress towards the Feds responsibilities and monetary policy objectives , which are maximum employment , stable prices , and moderate long-term interest rates . The chair is nominated by the President of the United States from among the members of the Board of Governors , and serves a term of four years after being confirmed by the United States Senate . A chair may serve multiple consecutive terms , pending a new nomination and confirmation at the end of each . William Martin was the longest serving chair , holding the position from 1951 to 1970 . The chair does not serve at the pleasure of the president , meaning that he or she can not be dismissed by the president , though the chair can resign before the end of the term . The current Chairman is Jerome Powell , who was sworn in on February 5 , 2018 . He was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump on November 2 , 2017 , and was later confirmed by the Senate .