Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr. (July 24, 1940 – December 7, 2005) was a U.S. Republican Party politician who served as 112th Governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995.
He was born in Greenville, South Carolina, the oldest of six children. His father, Carroll Campbell, Sr., worked in the textile mills and the furniture business, and later owned a motel in Garden City, South Carolina.
He grew up in Greenville and the nearby small towns of Liberty...
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Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr. (July 24, 1940 – December 7, 2005) was a U.S. Republican Party politician who served as 112th Governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995.
He was born in Greenville, South Carolina, the oldest of six children. His father, Carroll Campbell, Sr., worked in the textile mills and the furniture business, and later owned a motel in Garden City, South Carolina.
He grew up in Greenville and the nearby small towns of Liberty and Simpsonville. He attended Greenville Senior High School, dropping out during a period that The Greenville News characterized as an "unsettled adolescence amid a disintegrating family" ; his uncle then enrolled him at McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He attended the University of South Carolina but withdrew due to financial concerns and later graduated with a masters of arts degree from American University . While at college, he joined Pi Kappa Phi fraternity.
He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1970 to...
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