Edgefield (South Carolina)

Edgefield County

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Edgefield is a city in South Carolina in the United States and the county seat of Edgefield County.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Preston Brooks, U.S. Congressman
  • Andrew Butler, U.S. Senator
  • Matthew Calbraith Butler, U.S. Senator and major general in the Confederate Army
  • James Longstreet, Lieutenant General of the Confederate Army
  • Francis Wilkinson Pickens, Governor of South Carolina
  • Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senator, Governor of South Carolina, and presidential candidate in 1948
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