Attorney General of South Carolina
Incumbent
Alan Wilson
since January 12, 2011
StyleThe Honorable
Term lengthFour years, no limit
Salary$208,000[1]
Websitewww.scag.gov

The Attorney General of South Carolina is the state's chief legal officer and prosecutor.[2]

History

On February 5, 1698, Nicholas Trott was appointed as the first Attorney General of South Carolina during its time as a British colony. He arrived in Charleston and assumed his duties the following year.[3] Alexander Moultrie, half-brother of Revolutionary War figure and future governor William Moultrie, was named the state's first Attorney General under its first state "President", John Rutledge, in 1776. Rutledge had been provincial Attorney General himself for 10 months before independence. Moultrie was impeached and resigned in 1792 for diverting state funds into the Yazoo land company fraud.

After the 1876 South Carolina gubernatorial election, the state was left with a contested election and a dual government, from the election in November through April 1877. Republican Robert B. Elliott served briefly in this situation under Republican governor Daniel Henry Chamberlain, while James Conner held office under fellow Confederate officer and Democrat Wade Hampton III. Hampton and Conner prevailed.

His Majesty's attorneys-general of South Carolina

The colonial province of South Carolina was first organized under a royal governor in 1720.[4]

U.S. state of South Carolina Attorneys General

References

  1. ↑ Budds, Becky (11 November 2022). "Pay raises for 6 South Carolina elected officials are coming in January". WLTX. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  2. ↑ "Inside the Office -".
  3. ↑ Cook, Robert D. (February 4, 2005). "History of the Office". South Carolina Attorney General's Office. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
  4. ↑ William Roy Smith, South Carolina as a Royal Province, 1710–1776, Macmillan, 1903, pp. 412–413.
  5. ↑ assistant / acting AG from 1742 through 1747; official term 1747 – 1757. See http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/james-wright-1716-1785
  6. ↑ "Heart Attack Proves Fatal To Callison". The Greenville News. Associated Press. 18 March 1966. p. 48.
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