MYRTLE BEACH (AP) -- Former Gov. Dick Riley and former slave and U.S. Rep. Robert Smalls have been chosen as the 2010 inductees for the South Carolina Hall of Fame.
The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported Riley and Smalls will be inducted Feb. 9 at the hall in Myrtle Beach.
The hall adds one living and one deceased member each year.
Riley also served as U.S. Education Secretary under President Clinton. Riley was governor from 1979 to 1987. He says he is honored by his selection.
Smalls was born in Beaufort in 1839 and led the takeover of a Confederate steamship at the start of the Civil War. He became a captain in the U.S. Navy and later served as a U.S. Representative from South Carolina in the 1870s.
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