Guide to Hollings' Campaign Records

Senator Fritz Hollings ran in quite a few elections during his fifty plus years in politics. Now, records from those campaigns and others are open to research. A guide to the materials, now online, will help you dig through the material.

The records include Hollings' successful 1950 re-election to a SC House seat, successful campaigns for lieutenant governor and governor in 1954 and 1958, failed 1962 bid for U.S. Senate, subsequent successful senatorial campaigns (1966, 1968, 1974, 1980, 1986, 1992, and 1998), and his 1984 run at the presidency.

Also included is material from the years when Hollings was not up for re-election but was aiding in the election of fellow Democrats, particularly during presidential campaign years. This includes 1960 when Hollings supported John F. Kennedy in his presidential bid (JFK carried South Carolina) and 1972 when Hollings was chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.

Visit SCPC today and take a look!

Congratulations!

Inez Tenenbaum, formerly South Carolina's State Superintendent of Education, has been sworn in as the new chairman of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. Tenenbaum was nominated by President Barack Obama and was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 23.

Above, Tenenbaum speaks at a press conference on fireworks safety on June 30.

Tenenbaum has donated her papers to South Carolina Political Collections for future research. Congratulations to her on her new post!

SCPC Closed Friday July 3rd

This year the July 4th state holiday will be observed on the 3rd (as the 4th is a Saturday). As a result, SCPC and all other University Libraries special collections units will be closed on the 3rd. We will reopen for researchers on Monday, July 6th.

We hope this does not cause any serious inconvenience.

Good-bye Allison!

Every so often, SCPC says good-bye to a wonderful student assistant and coworker. After two years, we're doing just that with Allison Hughes. Here, Allison posed good-naturedly for yet another photo on her last day of work. She's standing by her workspace with her giant card from all of us that chronicled her time at SCPC.


Allison joined us in August, 2007, as a graduate assistant, helping me to finish up the Ernest F. Hollings Papers. I gave her primary responsibility for processing two large series within the Papers. She took on that responsibility and excelled. Here, Allison is with (L-R) Senator Hollings, Lori, Dorothy, and Herb at the 2008 Thomas Cooper Library booksigning for Hollings' book, Making Government Work. Allison helped out at many events such as this in her two years at SCPC.


When she graduated from SLIS last December, she joined our professional staff! We knew it would be temporary but were glad to have her on board. She contributed a lot in five short months, working on several collections including the papers of both Donald Holland and C. Bruce Littlejohn and the records of the Republican Party of South Carolina. Here, at her desk on her last day, she is finishing up her work with the Republican Party records (and putting up with all the picture taking quite well). Her desk was next to the copier and the stacks, and she often had to move when we had to move around the ladder!


Allison's last day with SCPC was earlier this month. Today, she starts a full-time archives processing position in Atlanta. We wish her the best! We have been lucky at SCPC to have a number of excellent student assistants. Allison joins that group. We will all miss Allison and her contributions around here quite a lot.

Thanks, Allison!

SCPC takes a holiday on Friday, July 3rd

This year the July 4th state holiday will be observed on the 3rd (as the 4th is a Saturday). As a result, SCPC and all other University Libraries special collections units will be closed on the 3rd. We will reopen for researchers on Monday, July 6th.

We hope this does not cause any serious inconvenience.