South Carolina's 6th congressional district

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The 6th Congressional District of South Carolina is a congressional district in central South Carolina. It includes all of Bamberg, Clarendon, Colleton, Marion and Williamsburg counties and parts of Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Dorchester, Florence, Georgetown, Lee, Orangeburg, Richland and Sumter counties. The district was gerrymandered in the early 1990's from a deal by Republicans and black Democrats in the South Carolina General Assembly to ensure a majority black population. The rural counties of the black belt in South Carolina make up much of the district, but it was also carved to include the black precincts in Charleston and Columbia.

Jim Clyburn, elected in 1992, presently represents this heavily Democrat district.

[edit] Representatives

Name	Took Office	Left Office	Party	District Residence
Andrew Pickens	1793	1795	Anti-Administration	Abbeville
Samuel Earle	1795	1797	Democratic-Republican
William Smith	1797	1799	Democratic-Republican	Spartanburg
Abraham Nott	1799	1801	Federalist	Camden
Thomas Moore	1801	1803	Democratic-Republican	Spartanburg
Levi Casey	1803	1807(a)	Democratic-Republican	Newberry
Joseph Calhoun	1807(a)	1811	Democratic-Republican	Calhoun Mills
John C. Calhoun	1811	1817(b)	Democratic-Republican	Abbeville
Eldred Simkins	1818(b)	1821	Democratic-Republican	Edgefield
George McDuffie	1821	1823	Democrat	Charleston
John Wilson	1823	1827	Jacksonian	Golden Grove
Warren R. Davis	1827	1831	Jacksonian	Pendleton
	1831	1835(c)	Nullifier
Henry L. Pinckney	1835	1837	Nullifier	Charleston
Francis W. Pickens	1837	1839	Nullifier	Edgefield
Robert B. Rhett	1839	1841	Democrat	Beaufort
Francis W. Pickens	1841	1843	Democrat	Edgefield
Isaac E. Holmes	1843	1851	Democrat	Charleston
William Aiken	1851	1853	Democrat	Charleston
William W. Boyce	1853	1860	Democrat	Winnsboro
Civil War - Occupation and Reconstruction - Not Allocated
George W. Dargan	1883	1891	Democrat	Darlington
Eli T. Stackhouse	1891	1892(d)	Democrat	Little Rock
John L. McLaurin	1892(d)	1897(e)	Democrat	Bennettsville
James Norton	1897(e)	1901	Democrat	Mullins
Robert B. Scarborough	1901	1905	Democrat	Conway
J. Edwin Ellerbe	1905	1913	Democrat	Sellers
J. Willard Ragsdale	1913	1919(f)	Democrat	Florence
Philip H. Stoll	1919(f)	1923	Democrat	Kingstree
Allard H. Gasque	1923	1938(g)	Democrat	Florence
Elizabeth H. Gasque	1938(g)	1939	Democrat	Florence
John L. McMillan	1939	1973	Democrat	Mullins
Edward L. Young	1973	1975	Republican	Florence
John Jenrette	1975	1980(h)	Democrat	North Myrtle Beach
John L. Napier	1981	1983	Republican	Bennettsville
Robin Tallon	1983	1993	Democrat	Florence
Jim Clyburn	1993	present	Democrat	Sumter

^(a) Levi Casey was reelected in 1806, but died on February 3, 1807 before the end of the Ninth Congress; Calhoun succeeded him in a special election and took office on June 2, 1807.
^(b) John Calhoun resigned in 1817; Simkins succeeded him in a special election.
^(c) Warren Davis died on January 29, 1835; the seat remained vacant until Pinckney took office.
^(d) Eli Stackhouse died in 1892; McLaurin succeeded him in a special election.
^(e) John McLaurin resigned on May 31, 1897 after his election to the United States Senate; Norton succeeded him in a special election.
^(f) J. Willard Ragsdale died in 1919; Stoll succeeded him in a special election.
^(g) Allard Gasque died in 1938; his widow Elizabeth won a special election and served as caretaker until McMillan took office in 1939.
^(h) John Jenrette resigned on December 10, 1980 before his term expired in 1981; the seat remained vacant until filled by John Napier on January 3, 1981.

Source: Congressional Biographical Directory

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