Kershaw County · Marker 28-10
John C. West Boyhood Home
Cleveland School Rd., just S of I-20, Camden vicinity
Front inscription
This farm was the boyhood home of John Carl West (b. 1922), governor of South Carolina 1971-75. West, a graduate of the Citadel and the University of S.C., served as an intelligence officer in World War II, as state senator 1955-66, and as lieutenant governor 1967-71 before his term as governor. He was later U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia 1977-81.