David Muldrow Beasley is an American politician and the former executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme. A member of the Republican Party,he served one term as the 113th Governor of South Carolina from 1995 until 1999 before losing reelection to Democrat Jim Hodges. He also served as a state representative from 1981 until 1995.
Thomas Green Clemson was an American politician and statesman,serving as Chargés d'Affaires to Belgium,and United States Superintendent of Agriculture. He served in the Confederate Army and founded Clemson University in South Carolina. Historians have called Clemson "a quintessential nineteenth-century Renaissance man." He was an owner of enslaved persons.
James Lawrence Orr was an American diplomat and politician who served as the 22nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1857 to 1859. He also served as the 73rd governor of South Carolina from 1865 to 1868 after a term in the Confederate States Senate.
David Lee Emerson,is a Canadian economist,financial executive,and politician. He was formerly the Member of Parliament for the riding of Vancouver Kingsway. He was first elected as a Liberal and served as Minister of Industry under Prime Minister Paul Martin. After controversially crossing the floor to join Stephen Harper's Conservatives,he served as Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics,followed by Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The lieutenant governor of Texas is the second-highest executive office in the government of Texas,a state in the U.S. It is the second most powerful post in Texas government because its occupant controls the work of the Texas Senate and controls the budgeting process as a leader of the Legislative Budget Board.
Aaron Thomas Bliss was an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative and the 25th governor of Michigan,and was from Saginaw. Bliss Township was named after him.
Mercer "Merce" Reynolds III is an American businessman. He was the finance chair of U.S. President George W. Bush's presidential campaign.
Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr.,was an American Republican politician who served as the 112th governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995. Prior to this,he served as a member of the South Carolina Senate representing the 2nd district from 1977 to 1978 and as a congressman representing South Carolina's 4th district from 1979 to 1987.
The Democratic Governors Association (DGA) is a Washington,D.C.–based 527 organization founded in 1983,consisting of U.S. state and territorial governors affiliated with the Democratic Party. The mission of the organization is to provide party support to the election and re-election of Democratic gubernatorial candidates. The DGA's Republican counterpart is the Republican Governors Association. The DGA is not directly affiliated with the non-partisan National Governors Association.
Asbury Francis "Frank" Lever was a member of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina.
Susan Carol Schwab is an American politician,who served under President George W. Bush as United States Trade Representative from June 2006 to January 2009. She is not related to Charles R. Schwab Sr.,founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation;she is also not to be confused with his first wife Susan (Cotter) Schwab.
Eli Thomas Stackhouse was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina and an officer in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
Terry Edward Haskins was a South Carolina Republican politician who served as the Speaker pro-tempore of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1995 until his death five years later.
Robert James "Bob" Conrad Jr. is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. He served as chief judge from 2006 to 2013 and was a former nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to take the place of the retired James Dickson Phillips Jr. He previously served as a member of the executive committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 2016 to 2020.
Vincent Austin Sheheen is an American attorney and politician. He was a member of the South Carolina Senate from 2004 to 2020,representing the 27th District,which comprises Chesterfield,Kershaw,and Lancaster counties. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2001 to 2004. He ran for Governor of South Carolina twice,in 2010 and 2014,losing both times to Nikki Haley. In 2020,Sheheen lost reelection to Republican Penry Gustafson.
Nelson Mullins Riley &Scarborough LLP is a U.S. law firm and lobby group based in Columbia,South Carolina. Nelson Mullins has over 1000 attorneys,policy advisors,and professionals across 33 offices serving clients in more than 100 practice areas. In 2023,the American Lawyer ranked the firm as the 68th largest law firm in the nation based on 2022 gross revenue. It is the largest law firm in South Carolina by number of lawyers.
Robert E. "Bob" Vanasek is a Minnesota politician and a former member and Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A Democrat,he was first elected to the House in 1972 at just 23 years of age,and was re-elected every two years from 1974 to 1990. He represented the old districts 24A and 25A,which included portions of Dakota,Le Sueur,Rice and Scott counties in the southeastern part of the state.
Walter T. Cox III is an American lawyer who serves as a senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces from 1984 to 1999.
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.
Lindsey Graham,the senior United States senator from South Carolina and former U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 3rd congressional district,announced his bid for the Republican nomination for president on June 1,2015,at an event in his hometown of Central,South Carolina. Although he was praised for solid,often humorous debate performances,the campaign never gained any traction,and was suspended on December 21,2015.
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