Henry Dargan McMaster is an American politician and attorney serving as the 117th governor of South Carolina since 2017. A member of the Republican Party,he was the 50th attorney general of South Carolina from 2003 to 2011 and the 91st lieutenant governor of South Carolina from 2015 to 2017 under Governor Nikki Haley.
The 2010 South Carolina gubernatorial election took place on November 2,2010. Incumbent Republican Governor Mark Sanford was term limited and unable to seek re-election. Primary elections took place on June 8,2010,and a runoff election,as was necessary on the Republican side,was held two weeks later on June 22.
Nimarata Nikki Haley is an American politician and diplomat who served as the 116th governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and as the 29th U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 to December 2018. A Republican,Haley is the first Indian American to serve in a presidential cabinet. She was a candidate in the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries. Her victory in the Washington,D.C. primary on March 3,2024,made her the first woman ever to win a Republican Party presidential primary contest.
Jennifer Sullivan Sanford is the former First Lady of South Carolina and a former investment banker. She was married to Governor Mark Sanford.
James Emerson Smith Jr. is an American politician who served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1996 to 2019. Smith is a combat veteran and a serving officer in the South Carolina Army National Guard,a small business owner,and a practicing attorney in Columbia,South Carolina.
John Yancey McGill is an American politician from South Carolina. He was a member of the state Senate from 1989 to 2014. He served as the 90th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from June 2014 to January 2015. He was the last Democrat to hold statewide office in South Carolina,until the appointment of Brian J. Gaines as Comptroller General by Governor Henry McMaster in 2023.
Kevin L. Bryant is an American politician,pharmacist,and businessman. A member of the Republican Party,Bryant served as the 92nd Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina from January 25,2017 to January 9,2019,after serving in the South Carolina Senate from 2005 to 2017. He lost the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2018 to Governor Henry McMaster.
Hugh Kenneth Leatherman Sr. was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the South Carolina Senate from 1981 until his death in 2021. The 31st District,which he represented,is anchored in Florence,South Carolina. From 2001 until his death,Leatherman effectively controlled South Carolina's budget as the Senate Finance Chairman and was considered one of the most powerful people in South Carolina politics. He negotiated the deal to bring Boeing to South Carolina in 2009 and secured funding for the deepening of the Charleston Harbor in 2011. At the time of his death,Leatherman served as Vice Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. He served as President Pro Tempore of the South Carolina Senate for all but one day from June 18,2014,to January 8,2019. The position was abolished and replaced with the President of the Senate. Prior to this change,Leatherman was capable of being both President of the Senate and Senate Finance Chairman. He was also a member of the State Budget and Control Board until it was abolished in 2014.
Timothy Eugene Scott is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States senator from South Carolina since 2013. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as a member of the Charleston County Council,a state representative,and a U.S. Representative. He also worked in financial services before entering politics.
Thomas C. Davis is a Republican member of the South Carolina Senate since January 14,2009. His district includes part of Beaufort County.
The 2014 South Carolina gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the governor of South Carolina,concurrently with the regularly-scheduled election and special election to both of South Carolina's U.S. Senate seats,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The 2014 United States Senate special election in South Carolina took place on November 4,2014,concurrently with the regular election for the other South Carolina Senate seat. The special-election Senate seat was formerly held by Republican Jim DeMint,who resigned on January 2,2013,to become president of The Heritage Foundation.
Kristopher "Kris" Crawford is an emergency room physician and entrepreneur. He has served as a Republican in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2006 to 2014. Crawford represents District 63rd based in Florence,South Carolina. Currently,he serves as the President of Physicians Preferred Monitoring and regional medical director at EmCare.
The 2018 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 6,2018,to elect the governor of South Carolina. Incumbent Republican governor Henry McMaster,who took office after Nikki Haley resigned to become U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations,ran for election to a full term. The primary was held on June 12,with the Democrats nominating State Representative James E. Smith Jr. McMaster failed to win a majority of the vote,and then defeated John Warren in the Republican runoff on June 26. In the general election,McMaster defeated Smith,winning election to a full term.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina were held on November 6,2018,to elect the seven U.S. representatives from the state of South Carolina,one from each of the state's seven congressional districts. The elections coincided with a gubernatorial election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of South Carolina on November 6,2018. All of South Carolina's executive officers were up for election as well as all of South Carolina's seven seats in the United States House of Representatives.
Cheryl Marie Stanton is an American lawyer and former government official. She was the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the United States Department of Labor under the first Trump Administration. She previously served as the Executive Director of the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce.
The 2022 South Carolina gubernatorial election took place on November 8,2022,to elect the governor of South Carolina. Incumbent Republican governor Henry McMaster ran for re-election for a second full term in office and secured the Republican nomination in the June 14 primary. Joe Cunningham,former United States Representative from South Carolina's 1st congressional district,was the Democratic nominee. McMaster won the general election with 58% of the vote —a larger margin than in 2018.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of South Carolina in March 2020. On April 2,2020,DHEC announced that the virus had spread to all 46 counties in the state. During the month of June the seven-day moving average of new COVID-19 cases in South Carolina increased nearly five-fold,from 293 on June 1 to 1,398 on June 30,and continued to increase during July and into August. As of August 2022 the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) has confirmed 1,605,165 cases in the state and 18,192 deaths.
The political positions of Republican Governor Nikki Haley have been reported from her career in the South Carolina House of Representatives,during her 2011–2017 governorship,from her books Can't Is Not an Option and With All Due Respect,and during her tenure as United States Ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 until the very end of 2018. Some of these policy positions have changed,while others remain unmodified.
