48 Notable alumni of
College of Charleston
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The College of Charleston is 1140th in the world, 411th in North America, and 384th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 48 notable alumni from the College of Charleston sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Matt Czuchry
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Matthew Charles Czuchry is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Logan Huntzberger on The WB television series Gilmore Girls (2005–2007), Cary Agos on the CBS television drama The Good Wife (2009–2016), and Conrad Hawkins on the Fox medical drama series The Resident (2018–2023).
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Thomas Gibson
- Occupations
- film directortelevision actorfilm actoractor
- Biography
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Thomas Ellis Gibson is an American actor and director. He is best known for his television roles as Daniel Nyland on Chicago Hope (1994–1997), Greg Montgomery on Dharma & Greg (1997–2002) and Aaron Hotchner on Criminal Minds (2005–2016).
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Casey DeSantis
- Occupations
- television presenter
- Biography
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Jill Casey DeSantis is an American former news journalist, television show host, and the current first lady of Florida as the wife of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
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Orlando Jones
- Occupations
- television producerstand-up comedianexecutive producervoice actortelevision actor
- Biography
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Orlando Jones is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is known for being one of the original cast members of the sketch comedy series MADtv, for his role as the 7 Up spokesman from 1999 to 2002, and for his role as the African god Anansi on Starz's American Gods.
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John C. Frémont
- Occupations
- writerexplorerbotanistpoliticianengineer
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John Charles Frémont or Fremont was an American explorer, military officer, and politician. He was a United States senator from California and was the first Republican nominee for president of the U.S. in 1856 and founder of the California Republican Party when he was nominated. He lost the election to Democrat James Buchanan when the vote was split by Know Nothings.
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Brett Gardner
- Occupations
- professional baseball playerbaseball player
- Biography
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Brett Michael Gardner is an American former professional baseball outfielder who spent his entire 14-year Major League Baseball career with the New York Yankees.
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Joe Cunningham
- Enrolled in the College of Charleston
- 2000-2002 studied general studies
- Occupations
- politicianengineerlawyer
- Biography
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Joseph Kendrick Cunningham is an American politician who was the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 1st congressional district from 2019 to 2021. The district includes much of South Carolina's share of the Atlantic Coast, from Charleston to Hilton Head Island.
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Madeleine Westerhout
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- personal assistantpolitical adviser
- Biography
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Madeleine Elise Westerhout is the former Director of Oval Office Operations at the White House from February to August 2019. Prior to that, from 2017 to 2019, she served as the Personal Secretary to U.S. President Donald Trump. She was fired on August 29, 2019, after Trump learned she had shared details of the Trump family and Oval Office operations with reporters during an off the record dinner earlier that month.
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Andrew Goudelock
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- basketball player
- Biography
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Andrew Darius Goudelock is an American professional basketball player for Kolossos Rodou of the Greek Basket League. Standing at 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m), he plays at the shooting guard position. He played college basketball for the Charleston Cougars and was named the Southern Conference Player of the Year in 2011.
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Arthur Ravenel, Jr
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- politician
- Biography
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Arthur Ravenel Jr. was an American businessman and a Republican politician from Charleston, South Carolina. From 1987 to 1995, he served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Lu Parker
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- journalistbeauty pageant contestantmodelteacher
- Biography
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Frances Louise Parker is an American journalist, animal rights advocate, motivational speaker and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss USA 1994 and represented the United States at Miss Universe 1994 where she placed Top 6.
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Tiffany Grant
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- television actorvoice actorscreenwriterfilm actor
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Tiffany Lynn Grant is an American voice actress and script writer who is known for her English-dubbing work for anime films and television series as Neon Genesis Evangelion, in which she voiced the character Asuka Langley Soryu.
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Anthony Johnson
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Anthony Mark Johnson is an American former professional basketball player who last played with the Orlando Magic of the National Basketball Association (NBA). At 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m), he played the point guard position. He found success in pro basketball, becoming the first NBA D-League player to participate in an NBA Finals. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, Johnson played college basketball at the College of Charleston and was drafted in the NBA in 1997.
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Heath Hembree
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Richard Heath Hembree, nicknamed Heater, is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Seattle Mariners organization. Listed at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and 220 pounds (100 kg), Hembree throws and bats right-handed. He made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the San Francisco Giants in 2013 and has also played for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds, New York Mets, Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Tampa Bay Rays.
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Dontaye Draper
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Dontaye Dominic Draper is an American-Croatian former professional basketball player. Standing at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), he played at the point guard position.
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Robert Mills
- Occupations
- architectengineer
- Biography
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Robert Mills was a South Carolina architect and cartographer known for designing both the first Washington Monument, located in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as the better known monument to the first president in the nation's capital, Washington, DC. He is sometimes said to be the first native-born American to be professionally trained as an architect. Charles Bulfinch of Boston perhaps has a clearer claim to this honor.
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Tabetha S. Boyajian
- Years
- 1980-.. (age 44)
- Enrolled in the College of Charleston
- 1998-2003 graduated with Bachelor of Science in physics
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Tabetha "Tabby" Suzanne Boyajian is an American astronomer of Armenian descent and astrophysicist on faculty at Louisiana State University. She was a post-doctoral fellow 2012–16 at Yale University, working with Debra Fischer. Boyajian is active in the astronomical fields of stellar interferometry, stellar spectroscopy, exoplanet research, and high angular resolution astronomy, all particularly at optical and infrared wavelengths. She was the lead author of the September 2015 paper "Where's the Flux?", which investigated the highly unusual light curve of KIC 8462852; the star is colloquially known as Tabby's Star in her honor.
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James B. Edwards
- Occupations
- politiciandentist
- Biography
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James Burrows Edwards was an American politician and administrator from South Carolina. He was the first Republican to be elected governor of South Carolina since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era in the 1870s. He later served as the U.S. secretary of energy under Ronald Reagan.
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Margaret Gardiner
- Occupations
- writermodelpsychologistbeauty pageant contestantjournalist
- Biography
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Margaret Gardiner is a South African journalist and beauty queen who was the winner of the Miss Universe 1978, the first South African woman to win the Miss Universe title. She was 18 years old when she won the pageant. After the three semi-final competitions, she entered the five finalists in fourth place, but ended up winning the pageant after answering the final question.
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Jarrell Brantley
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Jarrell Isaiah Brantley is an American professional basketball player for Nagasaki Velca of the B.League. He played college basketball for the College of Charleston Cougars.
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Lucius Mendel Rivers
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- politician
- Biography
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Lucius Mendel Rivers was a Democratic U.S. Representative from South Carolina, representing the Charleston-based 1st congressional district for nearly 30 years. As chair of the House Armed Services Committee, Rivers developed a reputation for his unwavering support of American involvement in the Vietnam War. His reputation suffered as the American public at large turned against further escalation in the Vietnam War. In 1968, Rivers condemned American servicemen who attempted to stop the My Lai massacre, labeling them as "traitors". Rivers served in the House until his death in 1970.
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William Porcher Miles
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- politicianlawyer
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William Porcher Miles was an American politician who was among the ardent states' rights advocates, supporters of slavery, and Southern secessionists who came to be known as the "Fire-Eaters." He is notable for having designed the most popular variant of the Confederate flag, originally rejected as the national flag in 1861 but adopted as a battle flag by the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee before it was reincorporated.
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Grant Riller
- Enrolled in the College of Charleston
- Studied sociology
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Grant Lucas Riller is an American professional basketball player for the Beijing Royal Fighters of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). He played college basketball for the College of Charleston Cougars.
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Elixabete Sarasola
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Elixabete "Eli" Sarasola Nieto is a Spanish former footballer who last played as a goalkeeper for PSV of the Eredivisie Vrouwen.
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Glenn F. McConnell
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- politicianlawyeracademic administrator
- Biography
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Glenn Fant McConnell is an American politician from South Carolina. He was a member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 41st District from 1981 to March 13, 2012. He ascended to the office of lieutenant governor on March 13, 2012 because he was the Senate President Pro Tempore. He served as the 89th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina until June 18, 2014. The office of lieutenant governor had become vacant because of the resignation of Ken Ard on March 9, 2012 due to his indictment by a state Grand Jury for ethics violations.
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Nafees Bin Zafar
- Occupations
- software engineer
- Biography
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Nafees Bin Zafar is a visual effects and computer graphics software engineer of Bangladeshi origin based in Los Angeles, United States. Zafar currently works as Principal Engineer at animation studio DreamWorks Animation. In 2008, Zafar received an Academy Scientific and Technical Award thus becoming the first person of Bangladeshi origin to win an Academy Award. In 2015, he won a Technical Achievement Award.
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Burnet R. Maybank
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Burnet Rhett Maybank was a three-term US senator, the 99th governor of South Carolina, and mayor of Charleston, South Carolina. He was the first governor from Charleston since the American Civil War (1861-1865) and one of twenty people in United States history to have been elected mayor, governor, and United States senator. During his tenure in the Senate, Maybank was a powerful ally of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. His unexpected death on September 1, 1954, from a heart attack, led to Strom Thurmond being elected senator.
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Joe Chealey
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Joseph Emmanuel Chealey is an American professional basketball player for Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for College of Charleston located in South Carolina. He was born in Orlando, Florida where he grew up and went to Apopka High School.
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Frank Blair
- Occupations
- writerjournalist
- Biography
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Frank S. Blair Jr. was a broadcast journalist for NBC News, perhaps best known for being the news anchor on the Today program from 1953 to 1975.
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Ludwig Lewisohn
- Occupations
- criticwriternovelisttranslatorjournalist
- Biography
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Ludwig Lewisohn was a novelist, literary critic, the drama critic for The Nation and then its associate editor. He was the editor of the New Palestine, an American Zionist journal. He taught at the University of Wisconsin and at Ohio State University as well as serving as professor of German and Comparative Literature at Brandeis University. Lewisohn produced some 40 full-length fiction and non-fiction books, nearly as many translations, wrote numerous magazine and journal articles and edited countless other written works.
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Dylan Fernandes
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- LGBTQI+ rights activistpolitician
- Biography
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Dylan A. Fernandes is a state representative currently serving in the Massachusetts House representing Martha's Vineyard, the Elizabeth Islands, four precincts of Falmouth, and Nantucket. He has been serving since 2017 and is a member of the Democratic Party.
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Andy Craven
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Andrew Murray Craven is an American soccer player.
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Joanna Klatten
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Joanna Klatten is a French professional golfer who mainly played on the LPGA Tour. She won four tournaments on the ALPG Tour and climbed into the top-100 of the Women's World Golf Rankings in 2014.
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Antwaine Wiggins
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Antwaine Jermaine Wiggins is an American professional basketball player for Al Naft. He is a multi-position player. His extreme athleticism, versatility and length allows him to play shooting guard, small forward or power forward. After four successful years at Charleston, Wiggins entered the 2012 NBA draft but was not selected in the draft's two rounds.
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Thomas F. Hartnett
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Thomas Forbes "Tommy" Hartnett is a former American politician who served as a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.
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Bruce Howe Hendricks
- Occupations
- judgelawyer
- Biography
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Bruce McCaw Howe Hendricks /bruːsi/ is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina and former United States magistrate judge of the same court.
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Christie Benet
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- politicianlawyerplayer of American football
- Biography
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William Christie Benet Jr. was a Democratic Party politician who briefly represented the state of South Carolina in the United States Senate in 1918.
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Josephine Pinckney
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- novelistwriterpoet
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Josephine Lyons Scott Pinckney was a novelist and poet in the literary revival of the American South after World War I. Her first best-selling novel was the social comedy, Three O'clock Dinner (1945).
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Vic Rawl
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- politician
- Biography
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A. Victor Rawl is an American politician, attorney, and jurist serving as a member of the Charleston County council in Charleston, South Carolina. Rawl was a candidate for 2010 United States Senate election in South Carolina. He lost the Democratic primary to Alvin Greene in a surprise upset and unsuccessfully protested the outcome of the race.
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Chevez Goodwin
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Chevez Brandford Goodwin is an American professional basketball player who last played for Rostock Seawolves of the Basketball Bundesliga. He previously played college basketball with the USC Trojans of the Pac-12 Conference, as well as for the College of Charleston Cougars and the Wofford Terriers.
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Shawn Ferguson
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Shawn Ferguson is a retired American soccer player who formerly played for Charleston Battery in the United Soccer League.
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Samuel Dibble
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Samuel Dibble was a lawyer, educator and Confederate Civil War veteran who served several terms as U.S. Representative from South Carolina during the 1880s.
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John M. MacDougal
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 70)
- Occupations
- curatorbotanist
- Biography
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John Mochrie MacDougal is an American botanist, noted for his work on the taxonomy of passion flowers, having discovered several new species.
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Jerry G. Melvin
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jarrett Green "Jerry" Melvin was an American politician in the state of Florida.
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W. Turner Logan
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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William Turner Logan was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from South Carolina from 1921 to 1925.
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Megan Manthey
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Megan Manthey is a professional American soccer midfielder who has played for the Seattle Sounders Women of the United Soccer Leagues W-League among other teams in Europe, most recently Stjarnan, Iceland.
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Lionel K. Legge
- Years
- 1889-1970 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Lionel K. Legge was an associate justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. He was the president of the Charleston County Bar starting in 1940. Justice Legge and his wife, Dorothy Haskell Porcher Legge, undertook the first restoration of Charleston's historic Rainbow Row homes in 1931 and made 99-101 East Bay Street their home. He is buried at St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Joseph E. Jacobs
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Joseph Earle Jacobs was a US diplomat.
