Richard Manning Jefferies

Richard Manning Jefferies, a longtime state legislator and the 101st governor of South Carolina from 1942 to 1943, was born in Union County, South Carolina on February 27, 1889. He graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1910 and moved to the town of Ridgeland. There, he read law and served as superintendent of the elementary school. Moving to Walterboro after his admission to the bar, he practiced law and was elected probate judge of Colleton County in 1918.