Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 2008, Scott faced Vince Ford in the Democratic primary for South Carolina Senate Seat District 19. After the Primary, the State Board of Canvassers of the South Carolina State Election Commission ordered a recount, which took place on June 16, 2008. [8] The recount gave Scott the primary victory. [9]
State Sen. John Scott, a longtime South Carolina lawmaker who served in state government for more than three decades, died Sunday after a stint in the hospital, according to Democrats across the ...
Jun. 1—The man who became one of the youngest members of the South Carolina Senate died last Tuesday after an accident at his home. Former S.C. Sen. Michael Laughlin represented parts of Aiken ...
Scott, a Richland County Democrat, was first elected to the State House in 1990.
Patterson won a special election to South Carolina State Senate District 19 in November 1985, [6] going on to serve as an outspoken legislator championing the cause of the poor and downtrodden. Patterson succeeded I. DeQuincey Newman , the first Black person to serve in the South Carolina Senate since Reconstruction.
Clementa Carlos Pinckney [a] (July 30, 1973 – June 17, 2015) was an American politician and pastor who served as a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 45th District from 2000 until his murder in 2015.
State Sen. Hugh Leatherman, South Carolina’s oldest and most powerful state lawmaker, died Friday at the age of 90. Leatherman died at his home in Florence, his office said, after being ...
In 2007, Mescher gained media attention when he proposed a bill to legalize medical marijuana in South Carolina. [6] [7] He has also previously fought for the legalization of ferrets as pets and tattooing in the state. [8] [9] Mescher died of a stroke on April 8, 2007. [10] A Special Election for State Senate District 44 was held on August 7, 2007.