The sign on the apartment door calls the occupant “the Cucumber King,” a reference to his successes in the complex’s garden.

A symbol of success? On Louis Sossamon’s door? No surprise there.

Success has been his constant companion on his 97-year march through life, a journey characterized by leadership and changing lives and by triumphs in athletics, business and public service.

Captain of the football team, president of the student body and his fraternity in his days at the University of South Carolina? Check.

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