Charles Cecil Wyche papers, 1906-1962.

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Wyche, Charles Cecil, 1885-1966. Charles Cecil Wyche papers, 1906-1962.

Charles Cecil Wyche papers, 1906-1962.

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Papers documenting Wyche's career on the bench and in the General Assembly; persons represented include fellow attorneys, judges, and politicians of the day, including his law partner Donald Russell. General Papers, 1906 to 1961, consist largely of correspondence with individuals ranging from fellow Judges Ashton Williams and George Bell Timmerman to prison inmates seeking to appeal their sentences. The correspondence chiefly documents the routine operation of a federal district court. Judicial Papers include case decisions, Annual Reports of the Eastern and Western Districts in S.C., 1955 to 1963, and Reports of Examiner on Offices in the Eastern District, 1957 to 1961. Topical Files relate to events and subjects of interest to Wyche, including speech materials from J. Strom Thurmond, James F. Byrnes, C.T. Graydon, W.W. "Duck" Wannamaker, and other leaders in S.C. politics from 1932-1958, reports of court activities compiled for the 1961 and 1962 Judicial Conferences, and correspondence relating to Wyche's appointment as U.S. District Attorney for the Western District in South Carolina in 1933. Topical files include several eulogies, including one delivered by C.T. Graydon for Coleman L. Blease and one Wyche himself presented on the passing of his predecessor in 1947, the Honorable Henry Hitt Watkins. Wyche's file on integration includes correspondence, addresses by Strom Thurmond, Olin D. Johnston, and James Byrnes opposing desegregation, and brochures sent to Wyche with titles like Communism and the NAACP and Ultimate World Order as Pictured in the Jewish Utopia. Also includes genealogical file on the Wyche family.

5 linear ft. (4 cartons)

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