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Thomas Sumter Tisdale Jr

Thomas Sumter Tisdale Jr is a lawyer and a writer living in Charleston, South Carolina. The son of a priest of the Episcopal Church of the same name and Rebecca Wright Roberts, He was born in Florence, South Carolina on May10, 1939. He received a B A degree from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee in 1961 and a J D degree from the School of Law of the University of South Carolina in 1964.

Since the beginning of his practice of law in Charleston in 1964 he has been actively engaged in many professional and community endeavors. He has served as a judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Charleston and as Chancellor of The Episcopal Church in South Carolina. He has served as President of the South Carolina Bar, and of the South Carolina Historical Society, and as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Porter Gaud School. He has served as a member of the Board of Regents of the University of the South, and on the governing boards of Voorhees College, the Southern Education Foundation, and the Spoleto Festival USA. Tisdale is a founder of The Society of Promoting Christian Knowledge/USA (SPCK/USA), an organization that publishes and distributes Christian literature worldwide.

Tisdale is the founder and Publisher of Home House Press, homehousepresspublishers.org, a publishing company headquartered in Charleston, South Carolina that publishes and sells books of South Carolina history. He has written A Lady of the High Hills, Natalie Delage SumterItalic text (University of South Carolina Press, 2001), and the play Truth in Cold Blood'' (Broad Street Press, 2013) that was produced at the Dock Street Theater in Charleston in 2014. In addition to many articles, mostly in historical journals and magazines, he has contributed an entry in the New American Catholic Encyclopedia entitled The Catholic Church in South Carolina. Tisdale was the executive producer for the production of the play SOUTH by Julian Green that was presented in Charleston and Savannah, Georgia in 2004.