Greenville is a city in and the county seat of Greenville County,South Carolina,United States. With a population of 70,720 at the 2020 census,it is the 6th-most populous city in the state. Greenville is located approximately halfway between Atlanta,Georgia,and Charlotte,North Carolina,along Interstate 85. Its metropolitan area also includes Interstates 185 and 385. Greenville is the anchor city of the Upstate,a combined statistical area with a population of 1,487,610 at the 2020 census. Greenville was the fourth fastest-growing city in the United States between 2015 and 2016,according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
James Baxter Hunt Jr. is an American politician and retired attorney who was the 69th and 71st Governor of North Carolina. He is the longest-serving governor in the state's history.
Martin Frederick Ansel was the 89th governor of South Carolina from 1907 to 1911.
Furman University is a private liberal arts university in Greenville,South Carolina. Founded in 1826 and named after Baptist pastor Richard Furman,Furman University is the oldest private institution of higher learning in South Carolina. It became a secular university in 1992,while keeping Christo et Doctrinae as its motto. As of Fall 2021,it enrolls approximately 2,300 undergraduate students and 150 graduate students on its 750-acre (304 ha) campus.
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.
Donald Stuart Russell was an American politician,attorney,judge,and academic administrator from South Carolina. A Democrat,Russell was elected Governor of South Carolina in 1962 and served from 1963 to 1965,which was followed by a stint as U.S. Senator from South Carolina from 1965 to 1966.
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. Meghan Meehan-Draper is currently the DGA's executive director,while Tim Walz is the current chair.
Nick Andrew Theodore is a former American politician from South Carolina. He was the first Greek-American elected to the South Carolina State Legislature. He served as a state representative from 1963 to 1966 and 1970 to 1978,a South Carolina state senator from 1967 to 1968 and from 1981 to 1986,and the 85th lieutenant governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Joe Arnold Erwin is an entrepreneur and politician from South Carolina. He co-founded and former President of Erwin-Penland Advertising,is a former Chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party,and co-founded the thought leadership conference Food for Thought in 2008. Currently owns Erwin Creates and the co-working space in Downtown Greenville South Carolina,Endeavor Greenville (www.endeavorgreenville.com).
William Bullein Johnson was an American Baptist minister,one of the founders of the South Carolina State Baptist Convention in 1821,and later was the first president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1845 to 1851. Johnson is also the founder of Johnson Female Seminary,later renamed Johnson University,in 1848 the predecessor to Anderson University.
Bennie Lee Sinclair was an American poet,novelist,and short story writer. She was named by Governor Richard Wilson Riley as the fifth South Carolina Poet Laureate from 1986 to 2000.
Frank Sharp Holleman,III is an attorney and politician from South Carolina who was the Democratic Party's nominee for South Carolina Superintendent of Education in 2010 and is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Education.
Chandra Dillard is an American politician. She is a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 23rd District,serving since 2009. She is a member of the Democratic party. Dillard is the Deputy Minority Leader of the House. She serves on the Public Education Budget Subcommittee and the Sales &Use Tax and Income Tax Legislative Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee.
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 1915 Furman Baptists football team represented Furman University during the 1915 college football season as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA). Furman compiled an overall record of 5–3 with a mark of 1–1 in SIAA play. The team began the season led by second-year W. B. Bible,who also served as the school's athletic director. Bible resigned in mid-November,before Furman final game of the season. Assistant coach Billy Laval was elected to succeed Bible as head coach.
Carol Rasco is an American political aide and advocate for disability rights,literacy,and children who served as Director of the Domestic Policy Council under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1996. She has been described as a trusted aide to the former president and governor and,during his absence due to his presidential campaign,was credited with running Arkansas' daily business. She cites her life experiences as the mother of a child with a disability as motivation for her political advocacy and influence and has most recently worked most with literacy projects.
Pamela Sue Evette is an American politician and businesswoman and the 93rd lieutenant governor of South Carolina since 2019. A member of the Republican Party,she was the CEO of Quality Business Solutions in Upstate South Carolina before her election as lieutenant governor. She is the first lieutenant governor to be elected on the same ticket as the governor. She has been in office since January 9,2019,when Henry McMaster began his first elected term as governor.
Virginia Short Uldrick was a teacher of music,speech,and drama and the founder and first president of the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts &Humanities,a public residential high school in Greenville,South Carolina.
The South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984,known informally as the EIA,is a landmark South Carolina statute enacted by the state legislature and signed into law by governor Richard Riley on June 28,1984. It is recognized as being one of the most robust education reform efforts to occur at the state-level in the United States.
