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Samuel Hitt Elbert was an attorney in the Nebraska Territory before settling in the Colorado Territory. He served as the Secretary of the territory and from 1873 to 1874, he was the Governor of the Colorado Territory. He was a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from 1876 to 1888 and was chief justice from 1879 to 1882.
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Robert "Bobby" M. Hitt III is a government and business leader in the State of South Carolina. A native of Charleston, South Carolina, he was appointed the state's Secretary of Commerce in January 2011. Prior to leading the state's economic development agency, Hitt served as an executive at the BMW plant in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. Hitt was born to be a journalist as both his father and grandfather were newspapermen. Over nearly two decades, he built a reputation as a dogged journalist for two of South Carolina's most respected newspapers.
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