South Carolina, and later Alabama supreme court justice. James Dellet, later U.S. Representative from Alabama Stephen Elliott, later First Episcopal Bishop of Georgia & Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the CSA John Gayle, Clariosophic president, later governor of Alabama Robert Budd Gilchrist, U.S. federal judge in SC William Henry Gist, later governor of SC Wade Hampton III, later governor of SC and U.S. senator from SC Hopkins Holsey, later U.S. Representative from Georgia Hugh S. Legaré, later US Attorney General Dixon Hall Lewis, later U.S. Senator from Alabama Charles James McDonald, later governor of Georgia and Georgia supreme court justice George McDuffie, later SC Governor and U.S. Senator from SC Basil Manly, later Baptist minister and president of the University of Alabama Richard I. Manning, later SC Governor and U.S. Representative from South Carolina John Murphy, later governor of Alabama John Belton O'Neall (1793-1863), South Carolina State Representative 1816-1828, Judge of the South Carolina Court of Appeals 1830, and member of the U.S. O'Neall political family Eugenius Aristides Nisbet, later U.S. Representative from Georgia and Georgia supreme court justice William T. Nuckolls, later U.S. Representative from South Carolina Francis Wilkinson Pickens, later U.S. Representative from South Carolina, U.S. ambassador to Russia and Governor of South Carolina Henry L. Pinckney, later U.S. Representative from South Carolina Henry William Ravenel, Botanist James Rogers, later U.S. Representative from South Carolina Benjamin Glover Shields, later U.S. Representative from Alabama and United States Chargé d'Affaires in Venezuela Edwin G. Seibels, while a student served in the SC House; later became an insurance executive and invented the vertical filing cabinet. Waddy Thompson, Jr., later U.S. Representative from South Carolina Louis T. Wigfall, US Senator from Texas and Confederate Senator from Texas Notable Members 20th Century William Jennings Bryan Dorn, U.S. Representative from South Carolina Walton James McLeod, III, Member of SC Legislature External links Clariosophic.org Official Website Walton J. McLeod, Member of SC Legislature Eugene Platt, Poet, and 2010 SC State House Candidate Resources Haygood, Tamara Miner (2006). Henry William Ravenel, 1814-1887 South Carolina scientist in the Civil War Era, Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. Hollis, Daniel Walker (1951). University of South Carolina, volume I: South Carolina College, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press. References College literary societies in the United States History of South Carolina University of South Carolina