Other High Offices Held
This is a table of congressional seats, other federal offices, and other governorships held by governors. All representatives and senators mentioned represented South Carolina except where noted. * denotes those offices which the governor resigned to take.
| Name | Gubernatorial term | U.S. Congress | Other offices held | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House | Senate | |||
| John Rutledge | 1776-1778, 1779-1782 | Delegate to Philadelphia Convention and signer of the United States Constitution; Associate and Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court | ||
| Thomas Pinckney | 1787–1789 | H | United States Minister to Great Britain | |
| Charles Pinckney | 1789–1792; 1796–1798; 1806–1808 | H | S | Delegate to Philadelphia Convention and signer of the United States Constitution; United States Minister to Spain |
| Paul Hamilton | 1804–1806 | United States Secretary of the Navy | ||
| Henry Middleton | 1810–1812 | H | United States Minister to Russia | |
| David Rogerson Williams | 1814–1816 | H | ||
| Richard Irvine Manning I | 1824–1826 | H | ||
| John Taylor | 1826–1828 | H | S | |
| Stephen Decatur Miller | 1828–1830 | H | S | |
| James Hamilton, Jr. | 1830–1832 | H | ||
| Robert Y. Hayne | 1832–1834 | S | ||
| George McDuffie | 1834–1836 | H | S | |
| John Peter Richardson II | 1840–1842 | H | ||
| James Henry Hammond | 1842–1844 | H | S | |
| William Aiken, Jr. | 1844–1846 | H | ||
| Francis Wilkinson Pickens | 1860–1862 | H | United States Minister to Russia | |
| Milledge Luke Bonham | 1862–1864 | H | Confederate Representative | |
| James Lawrence Orr | 1865–1868 | H | Confederate Senator; United States Minister to Russia | |
| Wade Hampton III | 1877-79 | S* | United States Railroad Commissioner | |
| Hugh Smith Thompson | 1882–1886 | United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury*; United States Civil Service Commissioner | ||
| Benjamin Tillman | 1890–1894 | S | ||
| Coleman Livingston Blease | 1911–1915 | S | ||
| Olin D. Johnston | 1935-1939, 1943-1945 | S* | ||
| Burnet R. Maybank | 1939–1941 | S* | ||
| Strom Thurmond | 1947–1951 | S | ||
| James F. Byrnes | 1951–1955 | H | S | Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court; United States Secretary of State |
| Ernest "Fritz" Hollings | 1959–1963 | S | ||
| Donald S. Russell | 1963–1965 | S* | ||
| John C. West | 1971–1975 | United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia | ||
| James B. Edwards | 1975–1979 | United States Secretary of Energy | ||
| Richard Riley | 1979–1987 | United States Secretary of Education | ||
| Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. | 1987–1995 | H | ||
| Mark Sanford | 2003–2011 | H | ||
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