College Presidents & Founders
Presidents
Robert Smith (1790–1797)
Thomas Bee Jr. (1798–1805)
George Buist (1806–1808)
Elijah Dunham Rattoone (1810)
Nathaniel Bowen (1823–1824, 1827–1828)
Jasper Adams (1825–1826, 1828–1836)
William Theophilus Brantly (1838–1844)
William Peronneau Finley (1845–1857)
Nathaniel Russell Middleton (1857–1880)
Henry Elliott Shepherd (1882–1897)
Harrison Randolph (1897–1945)
George Daniel Grice (1945–1966)
Walter Raleigh Coppedge (1966–1968)
Theodore Sanders Stern (1968–1978)
Edward McDaniel Collins Jr. (1978–1985)
Harry McKinley Lightsey Jr. (1985–1992)
Alexander Mullings Sanders Jr. (1992–2001)
Leo Ignatius Higdon Jr. (2001–2006)
P. George Benson (2007–2014)
Glenn F. McConnell (2014–2019)
Andrew T. Hsu (2019–present)
Founders and Early Trustees
Signers of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Heyward Jr.
Arthur Middleton
Edward Rutledge
Framers of the U.S. Constitution
Charles Pinckney
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
John Rutledge
South Carolina Governors
John Mathews (1782–1783)
William Moultrie (1785–1787, 1792–1794)
Charles Pinckney (1789–1792, 1796–1798, 1806–1808)
Thomas Pinckney (1787–1789)
Edward Rutledge (1798–1800)
John Rutledge (1776–1778, 1779–1782)
Arnoldus Vanderhorst (1794–1796)
Diplomats
Ralph Izard (to Tuscany)
William Loughton Smith (to Portugal, Spain and Ottoman Porte)
Charles Pinckney (to Spain)
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (to France)
Thomas Pinckney (to Great Britain and Spain)
Presidential Candidates
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1804 and 1808)
Supreme Court Justice
John Rutledge (1789–1791)