Clemson University is a public land-grant research university in Clemson,South Carolina. Founded in 1889,Clemson is the second-largest university in student population in South Carolina. For the fall 2019 semester,the university enrolled a total of 20,195 undergraduate students and 5,627 graduate students,and the student/faculty ratio was 18:1. Clemson's 1,400-acre campus is in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The campus now borders Lake Hartwell,which was formed by the dam completed in 1962. The university manages the nearby 17,500-acre Clemson Experimental Forest that is used for research,education,and recreation.
David Muldrow Beasley is an American politician and the 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.
William Alexander Graham was a United States senator from North Carolina from 1840 to 1843,a senator later in the Confederate States Senate from 1864 to 1865,the 30th governor of North Carolina from 1845 to 1849 and U.S. secretary of the Navy from 1850 to 1852,under President Millard Fillmore. He was the Whig Party nominee for vice-president in 1852 on a ticket with General Winfield Scott.
The Solid South or Southern bloc was the electoral voting bloc of the states of the Southern United States for issues that were regarded as particularly important to the interests of Democrats in those states. The Southern bloc existed especially between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. During this period,the Democratic Party overwhelmingly controlled southern state legislatures,and most local,state and federal officeholders in the South were Democrats. During the late 1800s and early 1900s,Southern Democrats disenfranchised blacks in all Southern states,along with a few non-Southern states doing the same as well. This resulted essentially in a one-party system,in which a candidate's victory in Democratic primary elections was tantamount to election to the office itself. White primaries were another means that the Democrats used to consolidate their political power,excluding blacks from voting in primaries.
Thomas Green Clemson was an American politician and statesman,serving as an ambassador 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."
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 politician,financial executive,and economist. 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.
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 Party 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. Noam Lee is currently the executive director of the DGA,while Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina is the current chair.
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,despite coincidentally sharing the same last name;she is also not to be confused with his first wife Susan (Cotter) Schwab.
NimrataNikkiHaley is an American diplomat and politician who served as the 116th and first female governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017,and as the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations for two years,from January 2017 through December 2018.
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.
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,who won by two percentage points.
William Byrd Traxler Jr. is an American jurist who currently serves as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Nelson Mullins Riley &Scarborough LLP is a U.S. law firm and lobby group based in Columbia,South Carolina. In 2022,the American Lawyer ranked the firm as the 70st largest law firm in the nation based on 2021 gross revenue. It is the largest law firm in South Carolina by number 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.
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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