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James Clyburn

Jim Clyburn
James Clyburn, official Congressional Majority Whip photo.jpg
House Assistant Democratic Leader
Assumed office
January 3, 2011
Leader Nancy Pelosi
Preceded by Chris Van Hollen
(Assistant to the Leader)
House Majority Whip
In office
January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2011
Leader Nancy Pelosi
Preceded by Roy Blunt
Succeeded by Kevin McCarthy
Chair of the House Democratic Conference
In office
January 16, 2006 – January 3, 2007
Leader Nancy Pelosi
Preceded by Bob Menendez
Succeeded by Rahm Emanuel
Vice Chairman of the House Democratic Conference
In office
January 3, 2003 – January 16, 2006
Leader Nancy Pelosi
Preceded by Bob Menendez
Succeeded by John B. Larson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from South Carolina's 6th district
Assumed office
January 3, 1993
Preceded by Robin Tallon
Personal details
Born James Enos Clyburn
(1940-07-21) July 21, 1940 (age 76)
Sumter, South Carolina, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Emily Clyburn
Children Mignon
Education South Carolina State University (BA)

James Enos "Jim" Clyburn /ˈklˌbɜːrn/ (born July 21, 1940) is the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 6th congressional district, serving since 1993, and the Assistant Democratic Leader since 2011. He was previously House Majority Whip, serving in that post from 2007 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes large portions of Columbia and Charleston, as well as several rural areas between them. Clyburn is the current dean of the South Carolina congressional delegation.

As Assistant Democratic Leader, he is the third-ranking Democrat in the House behind House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer.

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 elected as a Republican South Carolina Congressman in the 53rd and 54th U.S. Congresses in the late nineteenth century. He and other black politicians had strongly opposed the 1895 state constitution, which essentially disfranchised most African-American citizens, a situation that the state maintained for more than half a century until passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s.


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