SLED Firsts
Ebby B. Long 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.
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.
Agent Long served SLED as a Fingerprint Examiner from 1960-1963. Photo shows certificate of FBI fingerprint classification training.
Chief Strom is pictured (above photos) with Agent Long's FBI fingerprint class. Other students were from local law enforcement agencies around South Carolina.
Agent Long's Commission (above) dated November 1, 1961, signed by Governor Ernest F. Hollings and Secretary of State O. Frank Thornton.
Agent Long's credentials (above two photos).
SLED Chief J. P. Strom (above) in the 1960's. Photo by "Bud" Shealy, The State Newspaper/The Columbia Record.
Photo (above) of Ebby Long from The Columbia Record newspaper, August 1, 1961.
Photo of page 182 (above) 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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