SCGOP Youth Outreach

05/19/2023

Senator Paul as an intersting take on the ban of TikTok. Do you agree with Senator Paul that this violates our First Amendment rights?? Do we lose the ability to connect with young voters and get our message out if Congress bans TikTok? Comment below!

The First Amendment is precisely there to protect speech that might be unpopular or might be controversial.

04/10/2023

An interesting read about the struggle between protecting our first amendment rights and ensuring our personal information doesn't land in the hands of the Chinese government.

The push in Washington, D.C., to restrict or ban TikTok is meeting fierce resistance from critics who say that free speech is at stake.

09/11/2022

Today and everyday, we remember those we lost and the bravery of those who have served. We will never forget.

09/05/2022

Great to see the South Carolina Young Republicans, the College Republicans of South Carolina, and the South Carolina Teenage Republicans out in full force today!

08/22/2022

Live in the First Congressional and want to intern for Congresswoman Nancy Mace?? Apply today!

Are you interested in interning for the office of SC01 in DC or the Lowcountry this Fall? Applications are OPEN! To learn more, head to our website 👇

https://mace.house.gov/services/internships

08/08/2022

This is not the best game to be playing right now...

Lawmakers should ensure implementation of new laws deliver real freedom of choice for technology under conditions that benefit Western democracies more than those wishing to harm us and our way of life.

07/20/2022

Applications are open for the Fall to intern with Congresswoman Nancy Mace!

Interested in interning for the office of SC-01 in DC or the Lowcountry? Applications are OPEN for the Fall! To learn more, head to our website.
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https://mace.house.gov/services/internships

04/15/2022

ATTENTION: High School Seniors

Lin Bennett State Representative House 114 is offering a scholarship for a high school senior needing help with college!Send Representative Bennett a Personal Message and she can send you the application.

Thank you Representative Bennett for all you do for the students in South Carolina!

Update: I have received several applicants. I’ll be talking with them soon and making a decision. So I won’t be taking anymore applicants. Thank all of you for getting the word out. Wish I had more than one to give out.

Know a High School Senior needing help with College? I offer a $1,000 scholarship to a young woman graduating from a local HS. You must attend an SC college and have an good academic record. If you’re interested or know someone who might be, PM with the details so I can get the application out. The deadline for submission is May 15!

02/08/2022

Robert Smalls was born a slave on April 5, 1839, in Beaufort, South Carolina. Both he and his mother were owned by John McKee, and the identity of his father is not known. Smalls worked in his master’s Beaufort home throughout his youth and, in 1851, moved to their home in Charleston. There he was hired out to work on the waterfront and became an expert navigator of the coast. In 1856, he married Hannah Jones, a slave who worked as a hotel maid in Charleston. They had two daughters, and a son that died of smallpox as a toddler.

During the Civil War, Smalls conscripted into service aboard the CSS Planter. On May 13, 1862, Smalls, along with his all black crew and their families, hijacked the ship and turned it over to the Union Navy. Piloting both the Planter, which was re–outfitted as a troop transport, and later the Keokuk, Smalls used his intimate knowledge of the South Carolina coast to aid the Union's military campaign.

Smalls entered politics during the war as a 1864 Republican National Convention Delegate. Upon his return to SC he helped found the SCGOP in 1867 and served as a delegate to the 1868 SC Constitutional Convention where he led efforts to make a free education available to all children, regardless of race. He served in the SC House of Representatives and in 1870 he was elected to the SC Senate, where he chaired the Public Printing Committee.

Elected to the US House of Representatives in 1874 to represent SC's 5th District and in 1884 to represent the 7th District, he is known for fighting against segregation, opposing plans to relocate African Americans to Liberia, and serving on a number of important committees. He also helped pass legislation that created the Parris Island Marine Corps Base.

Smalls died in February 1915, at the age of 75. He was buried in the churchyard of the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Beaufort. The churchyard monument to Smalls is inscribed with a statement he made to the SC General Assembly in 1895: "My race needs no special defense, for the past history of them in this country proves them to be the equal of any people anywhere. All they need is an equal chance in the battle of life."

02/03/2022

Robert Carlos De Large was born the son of a slave-owning mixed-race tailor and his Haitian-born wife in Aiken, South Carolina in March 1842. He was educated at a primary school in North Carolina before returning to South Carolina to attend Wood High School in Charleston. De Large became a member of the Brown Fellowship Society of Charleston.

De Large enlisted and served in the Confederate Navy, a decision he later regretted since he donated most of his wartime earnings to the Republican Party. After the war he was an agent for the Freedmen's Bureau and became an ardent Republican, helping form the South Carolina Republican Party by serving on the platform committee at the first state convention. He also served as a delegate to the 1868 Constitutional Convention.

Elected from Charleston County to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1868, DeLarge chaired the powerful Ways and Means Committee. In 1870, De Large set his sights on the 2nd Congressional District, which encompassed Charleston and the southeastern portion of the state. He secured the Republican nomination over white incumbent Congressman Christopher Bowen, a former Confederate soldier and one of Governor Robert Kingston Scott’s political enemies. He went on to defeat Bowen, who ran as an Independent Republican, in the general election.

His short term in the U.S. House of Representatives was riddled with complications. The Chicago Tribune said one of his speeches on the House Floor showed “fearlessness and frankness.” Unfortunately for him, the House Committee on Elections began consideration of Bowen’s challenge to his election and reported that the many cases of abuse and irregularities during the election made determining a victor impossible, and on January 24, 1873, declared the seat vacant for the rest of the 42nd Congress. The full House confirmed the committee’s findings.

De Large returned to South Carolina settling in Columbia and later moved to Charleston after Governor Scott appointed him magistrate judge there. He died of consumption shortly thereafter on February 14, 1874, and is buried in the Brown Fellowship Society Cemetery in Charleston.

02/01/2022

Joseph Hayne Rainey was born into slavery in Georgetown, South Carolina in June 1832. His father worked as a barber and was able to keep a portion of his earnings, which he used to purchase the family’s freedom in the early 1840’s. Rainey took up his father's trade and worked as a barber in Charleston's Mills House Hotel. During the Civil War, he was forced to serve the Confederacy by building defenses for the City of Charleston and working on a blockade runner. In 1862, he and his wife were able to escape to Bermuda.

After the war, Rainey returned to South Carolina in 1866 and was instrumental in founding the South Carolina Republican Party, representing Georgetown County on the SCGOP Executive Committee. In 1868, he served as a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention and was elected to the South Carolina Senate at the age of 36.

In 1870, Rainey was nominated by the SCGOP to fill the term of U.S. Representative Benjamin F. Whittemore, who resigned after being convicted of selling appointments to federal military academies. On December 12, 1870, Joseph Rainey was sworn in as the first African American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives and only the second African American to serve in the United States Congress, following Senator Hiram Rhodes Revels of Mississippi. Rainey went on to serve until 1879, the longest term of any African American Member of Congress during Reconstruction. He was instrumental during his time in Congress, where he sat on many committees, spoke often, and advocated for civil rights legislation, public schools, and equal protections under the law. At age 55, he died of malaria in August 1887 in Georgetown.

His home, the Joseph H. Rainey House, also known as the Rainey-Camlin House, is a National Historic Landmark still standing at 909 Prince Street in Georgetown, South Carolina.