Johnston, former United States senator, South Carolina (1945–1965); governor of South Carolina (1935–1939, 1943–1945)
C. Bruce Littlejohn, associate justice South Carolina Supreme Court (1966–1984); chief justice (1984–1985)
Thomas Gordon McLeod, governor of South Carolina (1923–1927)
Costa M. Pleicones, associate justice, later chief justice, of the South Carolina Supreme Court since 2000
Dennis W. Shedd, judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Ellison D. Smith, former United States senator, South Carolina (1909–1945: 17th longest-serving senator in history)
John G. Stabler, associate justice South Carolina Supreme Court (1926–1935); chief justice (1935–1940)
Charles Albert Woods, associate justice South Carolina Supreme Court (1903–1913); judge on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (1913–1925)
=== Religion ===
William Wallace Duncan, bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Francis L. Garrett, chief of chaplains of the U.S. Navy
Marion J. Hatchett, a liturgical scholar …
