Aiken Standard is a

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published from

Aiken, South Carolina Aiken is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Aiken County, in western South Carolina. It is one of the two largest cities of the Central Savannah River Area. Founded in 1835, Aiken was named after William Aiken, the president of the Sout ...

, United States. It was established in 1867. It was called the ''Aiken Press''. The newspaper passed through the hands of several owners during the 1800s. One of the paper's most prominent early owners was

James F. Byrnes James Francis Byrnes ( ; May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972) was an American judge and politician from South Carolina. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in U.S. Congress and on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as in the executive branch, ...

. Byrnes, who was a congressman, U.S. senator, South Carolina governor, U.S. Secretary of State, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and “Assistant” to the President of the United States. Under Byrnes and his partner, Alva Lorenz, the ''Journal and Review'' developed into Aiken's main newspaper. Byrnes and Lorenz operated the ''Journal and Review'' until 1912, when Lorenz bought out Byrnes' interest in the newspaper. In 1953, Lorenz sold the newspaper to Benjamin Josey King and his wife, Annie Howell King. The Kings already owned a weekly newspaper called the ''Aiken Standard''. The Kings merged the two papers to create the ''Aiken Standard and Review''. The ''Aiken Standard and Review'' operated in a small building on Richland Avenue, using

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s and hot lead production methods that had been common in newspaper plants for many decades. The

Evening Post Publishing Company Evening Post Industries is a privately held American media company, based in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. It has been led by four generations of the Manigault family. On August 6, 2013, the company changed its name from the Evening ...

of Charleston purchased the newspaper in 1968. Construction of a modern, newspaper publishing plant, which featured a new

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, was begun at once, and was completed, equipped and occupied within a year. The newspaper closed out the old operation with its issue of Friday, September 26, 1969, and published its first issue from the new plant on September 29, 1969. By this time, the newspaper's name had been shortened, and it became the ''Aiken Standard'' of today. Samuel A. Cothran was the modern ''Aiken Standard's'' first Publisher and Editor. Under the leadership of Mr. Cothran, in 1985 a new, faster and larger press was installed, and almost simultaneously a Sunday morning edition was introduced. He remained Publisher and Editor until his retirement in 1989. In April 1989, Scott B. Hunter became the new Publisher of the ''Aiken Standard''. On August 19, 1989, the first Saturday morning edition was produced. The

Evening Post Industries Evening Post Industries is a privately held American media company, based in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. It has been led by four generations of the Manigault family. On August 6, 2013, the company changed its name from the Evening ...

owns the ''Aiken Standard'', the ''

Post and Courier ''The Post and Courier'' is the main daily newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina. It traces its ancestry to three newspapers, the ''Charleston Courier'', founded in 1803, the ''Charleston Daily News'', founded 1865, and ''The Evening Post'', f ...

'' in Charleston, and other daily and non-daily right leaning newspapers and television stations throughout the country. In December 2013, Ellen C. Priest became President and Publisher of the ''Aiken Standard,'' replacing Scott Hunter who retired that month.

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* https://archive.today/20150119034918/http://www.aikenstandard.com/about Newspapers published in South Carolina 1867 establishments in South Carolina {{SouthCarolina-newspaper-stub