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Congressional district. 2nd. Website. www.aikencountysc.gov. Aiken County (/ ˈeɪkən /) is a county in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 168,808. [ 1 ] Its county seat and largest community is Aiken. [ 2 ] Aiken County is a part of the Augusta - Richmond County, GA -SC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
There have been as few as four and as many as nine congressional districts in South Carolina. The 9th district and the 8th district were lost after the 1840 census. The 5th district and the 6th district were also briefly lost after the Civil War, but both had been regained by the 1880 census. Because of the state population growth in the 2010 ...
Residence. Aiken, South Carolina. Education. Bradley University ( B.J.) Bill Taylor (born July 16, 1946) is an American politician. He is a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 86th District, serving since November 8, 2010. He is a member of the Republican party. [ 1] The 86th district covers nearly two-thirds of Aiken ...
Jul. 7—When Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis recently came to the Aiken area for a town hall, he made sure to add his name to what has become a record of local Republican history ...
Former S.C. Sen. Michael Laughlin represented parts of Aiken County in the South Carolina Senate from 1968 to 1976. ... the Democratic Party had a dominant position in South Carolina politics but ...
e. The 2020 United States presidential election in South Carolina was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia participated. [1] South Carolina voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the ...
In 1868 he entered politics, serving on the Edgefield County commission before being elected to the General Assembly that same year. He represented Edgefield County from 1868 to 1871 and then Aiken County from 1872 to 1874. In 1872 Lee became the Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives. [1]
Aiken County, South Carolina was established in 1871, during the Reconstruction era. In 1875 its population of white, adult males was 2,494 and that of black, adult males was about 1,000 more. [ 4 ] In their drive to take back political and social power in the state, white Democrats used intimidation and outright violence in the following years ...