| − | '''Joseph Oscar Rogers, Jr.''', known as '''Joe Rogers'' (October 8, 1921 – April 6, 1999), was a n [[attorney]] from Manning, [[South Carolina]], who served as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in state representative from 1955 to 1966, when he switched allegiance to the [[Republican Party]]. Rogers was the first serious Republican [[Governor|gubernatorial]] nominee in e]] in South Carolina in ninety years, but he was handily defeated in the 1966 [[general election]] by the incumbent Democrat Robert Evander McNair, Sr. (1923-2007). | + | '''Joseph Oscar Rogers, Jr.''', known as '''Joe Rogers''' (October 8, 1921 – April 6, 1999), was an [[attorney]] from Manning, [[South Carolina]], who served as a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] in state representative from 1955 to 1966, when he switched allegiance to the [[Republican Party]]. Rogers was the first serious Republican [[Governor|gubernatorial]] nominee in e]] in South Carolina in ninety years, but he was handily defeated in the 1966 [[general election]] by the incumbent Democrat Robert Evander McNair, Sr. (1923-2007). |