Modern Legislation: [...] A House Resolution to Recognize and Honor the Men of Color Who Founded Aiken County in 1871 [...]

Samuel Lee

Modern Legislation: [...] A House Resolution to Recognize and Honor the Men of Color Who Founded Aiken County in 1871 [...]

03/03/2015

Modern Legislation

The South Carolina Legislature features a resolution introduced and adopted by the South Carolina House of Representatives on March 3, 2015, introducing and adopting a House resolution to "recognize and honor the [five] men of color who founded Aiken County in 1871 and to dedicate March 10, 2015 as 'Aiken Founders Day in South Carolina'." The resolution acknowledges Samuel Jones Lee - a formerly enslaved man turned attorney and South Carolina politician (R - SC) - as being among the most important founders of Aiken County. The other four men are: Prince Rivers, Charles D. Haynes, William B. Jones, and Gloster H. Holland.

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