Democratic Senator from South Carolina
Senator Hollings graduated from The Citadel in 1942. He served in World War II as a U.S. Army officer in the North African and European campaigns. He received the Bronze Star and seven other campaign ribbons.
After the war he attended University of South Carolina School of Law graduating in 1947. At age 26, in 1948 he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives. In 1955 he became South Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor. In 1958, at age 36 he was elected the youngest governor of South Carolina.
Under his leadership as governor, South Carolina became the first Southern state to earn the coveted AAA bond rating
In 1966 he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and has since been re-elected to five more terms. This makes him the fifth most senior member of the Senate and the fourth most senior Democrat.
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His website and contact info is at www.senate.gov/~hollings