South Carolina's 2nd congressional district

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The 2nd Congressional District of South Carolina is a congressional district in central and eastern South Carolina. It includes all of Lexington, Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, Allendale and Barnwell counties; almost all of Richland County and parts of Aiken, Calhoun and Orangeburg counties. It is based in the state capital, Columbia; other major cities in the district are Beaufort and Hilton Head Island.

The district's current configuration dates from 1933, when South Carolina lost a district as a result of the 1930 Census. It has been in Republican hands since 1965, when the district's second-term Democratic congressman, Albert Watson, switched parties. The district's best-known congressman, Floyd Spence, represented the district for over 30 years and was chairman of the House Armed Services Committee from 1995 to 2001, when he died a few months after being elected to a 16th term. He was succeeded in a special election by one of his former aides, state senator Joe Wilson, who continues to hold the seat.

[edit] Representatives

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	District Residence
William Butler	1803	1813	Democratic-Republican	Mount Willing
William Lowndes	1813	1822(a)	Democratic-Republican	Charleston
James Hamilton, Jr.	1822(a)	1823	Democratic-Republican	Charleston
	1823	1829	Jacksonian
Robert W. Barnwell	1829	1831	Jacksonian	Beaufort
	1831	1833	Nullifier
William J. Grayson	1833	1837	Nullifier	Beaufort
William K. Clowney	1837	1839	Nullifier	Union
John Campbell	1839	1841	Democrat	Parnassus
William Butler	1841	1843	Whig	Edgefield
Richard F. Simpson	1843	1849	Democrat	Pendleton
James L. Orr	1849	1853	Democrat	Anderson
William Aiken	1853	1857	Democrat	Charleston
William P. Miles	1857	1860	Democrat	Charleston
Civil War - Occupation and Reconstruction
Christopher C. Bowen	1868	1871	Republican	Charleston
Robert C. De Large	1871	1873(b)	Republican	Charleston
Alonzo J. Ransier	1873	1875	Republican	Charleston
Edmund W.M. Mackey	1875	1876(c)	Independent Republican	Charleston
Charles W. Buttz	1876(c)	1877	Republican	Charleston
Richard H. Cain	1877	1879	Republican	Charleston
Michael P. O'Connor	1879	1881(d)	Democrat	Charleston
Samuel Dibble	1881(d)	1882(e)	Democrat	Charleston
Edmund W.M. Mackey	1882(e)	1883	Republican	Charleston
George D. Tillman	1883	1893	Democrat	Edgefield
W. Jasper Talbert	1893	1903	Democrat	Parksville
George W. Croft	1903	1904(f)	Democrat	Aiken
Theodore G. Croft	1904(f)	1905	Democrat	Aiken
James O'H. Patterson	1905	1911	Democrat	Barnwell
James F. Byrnes	1911	1925	Democrat	Aiken
Butler B. Hare	1925	1933	Democrat	Saluda
Hampton Fulmer	1933	1944(g)	Democrat	Orangeburg
Willa Lybrand Fulmer	1944(g)	1945(g)	Democrat	Orangeburg
John J. Riley	1945	1949	Democrat	Sumter
Hugo Sims, Jr.	1949	1951	Democrat	Orangeburg
John J. Riley	1951	1962(h)	Democrat	Sumter
Corinne Boyd Riley	1962(h)	1963(h)	Democrat	Sumter
Albert Watson	1963	1965(i)	Democrat(i)	Columbia
	1965(i)	1971	Republican(i)
Floyd Spence	1971	2001(j)	Republican	West Columbia, then Lexington
Joe Wilson	2001(j)	present	Republican	Springdale

^(a) William Lowndes resigned in 1822; Hamilton succeeded him in a special election.
^(b) Christopher C. Bowen successfully contested the election of Robert De Large in 1870 and the seat was declared vacant on January 24, 1873, just a few weeks before being filled by Alonzo J. Ransier for the next term.
^(c) Charles Buttz successfully contested the election of Edmund Mackey in 1874 and filled the seat on November 7, 1876.
^(d) Michael O'Connor died in 1881; Dibble succeeded him in a special election.
^(e) Edmund Mackey successfully contested the election of Michael O'Connor and special election of Samuel Dibble to the Forty-seventh Congress and filled the seat for the remainder of the term.
^(f) George Croft died in 1904; his son Theodore won a special election and served as caretaker until Patterson took office in 1905.
^(g) Hampton Fulmer died in 1944; his widow Willa won a special election and served as caretaker until John Riley took office in 1945.
^(h) John Riley died in 1962; his widow Corinne won a special election and served as caretaker until Watson took office in 1963.
⁽ⁱ⁾ Watson served his first term and the first month of his second term as a Democrat, but was stripped of his seniority in 1965 for supporting Barry Goldwater in the previous year's presidential election. He then resigned and won a special election for his own vacancy as a Republican.
^(j) Spence died in 2001; Wilson succeeded him in a special election.

Source: Political Graveyard database of South Carolina congressmen

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