Charlie Condon | |
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Attorney General of South Carolina | |
In office January 15, 1995 – January 15, 2003 |
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Succeeded by | Henry McMaster |
Personal details | |
Born |
Charleston, South Carolina, USA Republican Party |
Spouse(s) | Emily Condon |
Alma mater |
University of Notre Dame (B.A.) Duke University (J.D.) |
Profession | Attorney |
Religion | Roman Catholic |
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Charles Molony Condon, known as Charlie Condon (born c. 1953), is a former Ninth Circuit Solicitor 1980-1991), when he was elected at the age of 27 he became the youngest Solicitor in the history of South Carolina, former attorney general of the U.S. state of South Carolina. He was the first chairman of the Republican Attorneys General Association. In 2008, he was the chairman of John McCain's presidential campaign in South Carolina. He currently is an attorney in private practice in Mt. Pleasant outside his native Charleston, South Carolina.
Condon was first elected attorney general in 1994. In his reelection in 1998, he defeated, 54-46 percent, the Democrat lawyer Tom Turnipseed of the capital city of Columbia, a former associate of Alabama's George C. Wallace who subsequently became a liberal political activist.
University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, Bachelor of Arts, 1975, magna cum laude
Duke University School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1978