Ebby B. Long (pictured above) and Gladys A. Toney served as the first female Agents of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED). They were appointed on November 1, 1961 by SLED Chief J. P. Strom during the administration of Governor Ernest F. Hollings.
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Agent Long's Commission, dated November 1, 1961, signed by Governor Ernest F. Hollings and Secretary of State O. Frank Thornton. Photo above.
Above, SLED Chief J. P. Strom, Major General R. J. Butchers, Provost Marshal of the U. S. Army, Agent Ebby B. Long, and SLED Assistant Chief Dan F. Beckman, February 17, 1962, following a tour of SLED.
SLED Chief J. P. Strom in the 1960's. Photo above by "Bud" Shealy, The State Newspaper/The Columbia Record.
Agent Long served SLED as a Fingerprint Examiner from 1960-1963. Photo above shows certificate of FBI fingerprint classification training.
Chief Strom is pictured (above and below) with Agent Long's FBI fingerprint class. Other students were from local law enforcement agencies around South Carolina.
Photo from The Columbia Record newspaper, August 1, 1961, above.
Agent Long's badge and credentials, above.
Above, photo of page 182 of Commissioned Officers of the State and District, (1953-1965), South Carolina Secretary of State, on file at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, showing the line entries for Ebby B. Long and Gladys A. Toney.
This page also shows entries for the first African-Americans to serve as SLED Agents, Joseph Wong and Cambridge Jenkins, Jr. They were commissioned on August 28, 1961.
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