John H. Dargan

President & CEO

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John H. Dargan is the President & CEO of The Spartanburg County Foundation.  He assumed this position March 1, 1997.  The Spartanburg County Foundation is the oldest community foundation in the state of South Carolina which was created in 1943. During his time as CEO, Foundation assets have more than doubled from $40 million to more than $102 million.

Prior to this role with the Foundation, Mr. Dargan spent 25 years in the banking industry; first with American National Bank in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he lived for eight years; moving to Columbia, SC in 1980, where he traveled for South Carolina National Bank in their National Accounts area, and later internationally with responsibility for account development in Latin America and Western Europe. He moved to Spartanburg in 1986 to assume the role of City Executive for SCN/Wachovia until February, 1997.  Mr. Dargan served the United States Navy during the Vietnam War. 

Mr. Dargan has been involved in many civic activities including:  past chairman of the Piedmont Chapter of the Red Cross, past chairman of Junior Achievement, past president of the North Spartanburg Rotary Club, past president of the South Carolina Community Foundation Alliance and past President of the Lake Summit Property Owners Association Board.  He currently serves currently as Senior Warden of the Episcopal Church of the Advent and as President of the Lake Summit Property Owner’s Foundation.

Mr. Dargan has also been involved in numerous other fund raising and community activities.  He has served on the boards of Mobile Meals, the Arts Partnership, the United Way, the Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce, the Walker Foundation, the Spartanburg Community College Foundation, the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation, the Rotary Club of Spartanburg, the South Carolina Association of Non Profit Organizations, the Carolina Country Club and the City of Spartanburg Historical Architectural Review Board.  Other civic work includes serving as a vestry member of the Episcopal Church of the Advent, member of the Board of Visitors for both Converse College and Presbyterian College and on the City of Spartanburg Investment Oversight Committee.  Mr. Dargan was honored to be a Rotary Paul Harris fellow, an Honorary Chairman of the March of Dimes Walk America, a Regional Fellows Graduate from the Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System Foundation and a Leadership Spartanburg Graduate.  

Mr. Dargan is a native of Spartanburg and a graduate of Presbyterian College. He is married to Kate Oates Dargan, and they have a son named John.

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