The Benjamin Ryan Tillman Papers consist primarily of material from the years when Tillman served as Governor of South Carolina (1890-1894) and then U.S. Senator (1895 - 1918). It includes substantial amounts of routine correspondence related to speaking engagements for the years prior to Tillman’s stroke in 1908, requests for pensions, requests for help by individuals seeking jobs, and letters from citizens on a wide variety of subjects which they wished to bring to the Senator’s attention. Mixed in with this correspondence are substantive matters related to South Carolina and national politics, the development of Clemson and Winthrop Colleges, and the personal life of the Tillman family.

• Introduction
• Series 1, Outgoing Correspondence (1890-1918, undated)
• Series 2, Incoming Correspondence (1848-1919, undated)
• Series 3, Personal Unprocessed (PU) Correspondence (1848-1940)
• Series 4, Stenographer's Notebooks (1895, 1901-1903)
• Series 5, Scrapbooks (1885-1943, undated)
• Series 6, Extracts from Congressional Record (1895-1918)
• Series 7, Benjamin Ryan Tillman, Jr. (1885-1950)
• Series 8, Diaries and Notebooks (1861-1905)
• Series 9, Kohn (1903-1915)
• Series 10, Snead (1796-1918)
• Series 11, Photographs (1886-1947)
• Series 12, Oversize Materials (1767-1920)
• Tillman Family Genealogy
• Pickens Family Genealogy