A concurrent RESOLUTION

 

To request the Department of Transportation name the ten-mile stretch of Interstate Highway 77 from South Carolina Highway 97 (Exit 55) to South Carolina Highway 9 (Exit 65) in Chester County "Representative F.G. 'Greg' Delleney Jr. Highway" and erect appropriate signs or markers at this location containing these words.

 

Whereas, born on February 9, 1952, in Chester, F.G. "Greg" Delleney Jr. was a son of the late Francis Gregory and Ruby Wright Delleney. He was educated at The Citadel where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1974; and

 

Whereas, Delleney served in the United States Navy from 1974 to 1977 and retired from the US Naval Reserves as a commander in 1995. After his tenure with the Navy, he furthered his education at Samford University's Cumberland Law School in Homewood, Alabama, graduating in 1981. He has been a partner with the Hamilton, Delleney, Grier & Cotton, LLC in Chester since 1988; and

 

Whereas, Delleney graduated from Erskine Theological Seminary in 2022 and was ordained as a minister for the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Chester the following year; and

 

Whereas, first elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1991 representing District 43, Delleney went on to serve continuously until 2018. He was voted the 2007 Palmetto Family Council South Carolina Legislator of the Year, and in 2008 he was named the South Carolina Citizens for Life Pro-Life Legislator of the Year. He also served as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee; and

 

Whereas, Delleney has served on The Citadel Board of Visitors since being appointed in 2019 and was reelected to a two-year term as board chair in 2025. He is a life member of both The Citadel Association of Citadel Men and The Citadel Alumni Association, holds membership in the American Legion, the Chester-Fairfield Citadel Club, the Shrine Club, and Gideons International, and is a past president of the Chester Sertoma Club. He also is the recipient of the state's highest civilian honor, the Order of the Palmetto which he received in 2019; and

 

Whereas, in 1983, he married Rebecca Caroline Williams, and they are the parents of daughter Caroline Caldwell Delleney and son Francis Gregory Delleney III; and

 

Whereas, having dedicated his life's work to the citizens of the Palmetto State, his District 43 constituents, his church and his family, it is only fitting and proper that a portion of highway in Chester County be named in his honor. Now, therefore,

 

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

 

That the members of the South Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, request the Department of Transportation name the ten-mile stretch of Interstate Highway 77 from South Carolina Highway 97 (Exit 55) to South Carolina Highway 9 (Exit 65) in Chester County "Representative F.G. 'Greg' Delleney Jr. Highway" and erect appropriate signs or markers at this location containing these words.

 

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Department of Transportation.

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