This collection includes materials donated to the Law Library’s South Carolina Legal History Collection by William D. Workman, Jr., in December 1983. Workman (1914-1990) was the state capital correspondent for the Charleston News and Courier from 1946 to 1962. He ran as a Republican for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democrat Olin D. Johnston in 1962. He joined the editorial department of The State in Columbia in 1963 and served as the paper’s editor from 1966 to 1972. He won the Republican nomination for governor in 1982, losing to the Democratic incumbent Richard W. Riley. Workman served as secretary of the 1966-1969 Committee to Make a Study of the South Carolina Constitution of 1895.
The William D. Workman, Jr. Papers in the South Carolina Legal History Collection include books, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and binder notebooks with material concerning the South Carolina State Constitution of 1895, state constitutional revision, and state constitutional history.
The portion of the Workman Papers digitized here features papers of the 1949-1950 Committee to Make a Study of the South Carolina Constitution of 1895 and the 1966-1969 Committee to Make a Study of the South Carolina Constitution of 1895 (also known as the West Committee). The originals of these digitized papers and the portion of the collection that has not been digitized may be viewed by arrangement with the University of South Carolina Law Library: https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/law/law_library/index.php.
See additional collections of Workman’s papers held by South Carolina Political Collections.
The William D. Workman, Jr. Papers in the South Carolina Legal History Collection include books, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and binder notebooks with material concerning the South Carolina State Constitution of 1895, state constitutional revision, and state constitutional history.
The portion of the Workman Papers digitized here features papers of the 1949-1950 Committee to Make a Study of the South Carolina Constitution of 1895 and the 1966-1969 Committee to Make a Study of the South Carolina Constitution of 1895 (also known as the West Committee). The originals of these digitized papers and the portion of the collection that has not been digitized may be viewed by arrangement with the University of South Carolina Law Library: https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/law/law_library/index.php.
See additional collections of Workman’s papers held by South Carolina Political Collections.
Browse the South Carolina Constitutional Materials (Workman Papers) Collections:
Committee to Study the South Carolina Constitution of 1895 (1949-1950)
Committee to Study the South Carolina Constitution of 1895 (1966-1969)