SC governor recognized for preserving government records, making them easy to access • SC Daily Gazette

SC governor recognized for preserving government records, making them easy to access • SC Daily Gazette

COLUMBIA — During his tenure as South Carolina’s attorney general, now-Gov. Henry McMaster fought in court to retrieve a trove of Civil War gubernatorial papers taken from the government’s possession in 1865. He argued the case through U.S. Bankruptcy Court, U.S. District Court and subsequent appeals, said Eric Emerson, director of the state Department of […]