Jim Clyburn
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James Enos Clyburn (born July 21, 1940) is an American politician of the Democratic Party serving as House Majority Whip since 2019.
He is a two-time Majority Whip, having previously served in the post from 2007 to 2011 and served as House Assistant Minority Leader from 2011 to 2019.
Currently in his 14th term as a congressman, Clyburn has served as U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 6th congressional district since 1993.
His congressional district includes most of the majority-black precincts in and around Columbia and Charleston, as well as nearly all of the mostly rural Black Belt within South Carolina.
Clyburn is the current dean of the South Carolina congressional delegation. Clyburn has been the third-ranking Democrat in the House behind Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer since 2007, serving as Majority Whip behind House Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer during periods of Democratic House control, and as Assistant Minority Leader behind Minority Leader Pelosi and Minority Whip Hoyer during periods of Republican House control.
After the Democrats took control of the House following the 2018 midterm elections, Clyburn was re-elected Majority Whip in January 2019 on the opening of the 116th Congress.
Clyburn remains the number three House Democrat behind Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Hoyer (marking the second time the trio has served in these roles together).
Early life and education
Clyburn was born in Sumter, South Carolina, the son of Enos Lloyd Clyburn, a fundamentalist minister, and his wife, Almeta (née Dizzley), a beautician. A distant relative of his was George W. Murray, an organizer for the Colored Farmers Alliance (CFA), who was a Republican South Carolina Congressman in the 53rd and 54th U.S. Congresses in the late 19th century. He and other black politicians strongly opposed the 1895 state constitution, which essentially disenfranchised most African-American citizens, a situation the state maintained for more than half a century until federal civil rights legislation passed in the mid-1960s.
Clyburn graduated from Mather Academy (later named Boylan-Haven-Mather Academy) in Camden, South Carolina, then attended South Carolina State College (now South Carolina State University), a historically black college in Orangeburg. He joined the Omega Psi Phi fraternity and graduated with a bachelor's degree in history.
For his first full-time position after college, Clyburn taught at C.A. Brown High School in Charleston.
Personal life
Clyburn was married to librarian Emily England Clyburn from 1961 until her death in 2019. They had three daughters; their eldest, Mignon Clyburn, was appointed to the Federal Communications Commission by President Barack Obama, and their second daughter, Jennifer Clyburn Reed, was appointed as federal co-chair of the newly formed Southeast Crescent Regional Commission.
Early political career
During the 1969 Charleston hospital strike, Clyburn became involved in politics. After assisting with the dissolution of the Troubles at the Medical University of South Carolina, he became involved in St. Julian Devine's bid for a seat on the Charleston city council in 1969. "Devine for Ward Nine" was Clyburn's campaign's catchphrase. When Devine won the election, he became the first African American to hold a seat on the city council since Reconstruction. Clyburn later credited the campaign with being the reason he jumped into electoral politics.
Clyburn left Columbia to join Governor John C. West's staff in 1971 after an unsuccessful bid for the South Carolina General Assembly. After reading Clyburn's reaction to his retirement in the newspaper, West called Clyburn and offered him a job as his advisor. Clyburn became the first nonwhite advisor to a governor in South Carolina history after West named Clyburn as his advisor.
West named Clyburn as the state's human affairs commissioner following the 1968 Orangeburg massacre, where police murdered three protesting students at a South Carolina college. He served in this capacity until 1992, when he resigned to run for Congress. The Orangeburg massacre and civil rights protest predated the 1970 Kent State and Jackson State shootings, in which the National Guard in Kent State, as well as state highway patrol at Jackson State, killed student protesters protesting the United States' invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War.