James Clyburn
| Jim Clyburn | |
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| House Assistant Democratic Leader | |
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Assumed office January 3, 2011 |
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| Leader | Nancy Pelosi |
| Preceded by |
Chris Van Hollen (Assistant to the Leader) |
| House Majority Whip | |
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In office January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2011 |
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| Leader | Nancy Pelosi |
| Preceded by | Roy Blunt |
| Succeeded by | Kevin McCarthy |
| Chair of the House Democratic Conference | |
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In office January 16, 2006 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Leader | Nancy Pelosi |
| Preceded by | Bob Menendez |
| Succeeded by | Rahm Emanuel |
| Vice Chairman of the House Democratic Conference | |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 16, 2006 |
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| 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 |
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Assumed office January 3, 1993 |
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| Preceded by | Robin Tallon |
| Personal details | |
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James Enos Clyburn July 21, 1940 Sumter, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Emily Clyburn |
| Children | Mignon |
| Education | South Carolina State University (BA) |
James Enos "Jim" Clyburn /ˈklaɪˌbɜːrn/ (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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