Established in 2001, The Governor Thomas Gordon McLeod and First Lady Elizabeth Alford McLeod Research Fellowship Endowment will provide support for a research fellowship at the South Caroliniana Library to encourage the study of post-Civil War politics, government, and society, with an emphasis on South Carolina history. This endowment was established by the family of Governor and Mrs. McLeod in recognition of their contributions to the Palmetto State.

"South Carolina will remember Tom McLeod, whose administration spanned the trying years 1923-27, as one of the state's most progressive and withal practically useful governors. He gave to education and highways much more than lip-service, but it was in fiscal legislation that he best illustrated his prescience and courage." So wrote the editor of The State newspaper in a December 1932 statement honoring the memory of the former chief executive. During his first term as Governor in 1924, the South Carolina General Assembly passed the "6-0-1" Act, under which the state would pay a school's operating expenses for six months if the county would pay for one month, historic legislation that would fund South Carolina public schools in the twentieth century.

To view the University South Caroliniana Society's annual report detailing the gift of the Thomas Gordon McLeod and Elizabeth Alford McLeod Papers, 1845-2001, please visit http://www.sc.edu/library/socar/uscs/2002/mcleod02.html.

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