Tom Turnipseed
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| South Carolina State Senator from Columbia | |
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In office 1976–1980 |
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| Born | 1936 (age 80–81) Mobile, Alabama, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Judy Turnipseed (m. 1963) |
| Children | Jefferson Davis Turnipseed Jeny Turnipseed |
| Residence | Columbia, South Carolina |
| Alma mater | University of North Carolina School of Law |
| Occupation | Attorney |
Tom Turnipseed (born 1936) is an attorney and former Democratic member of the South Carolina State Senate known for his liberal activism. Beginning in the late 1970s, he became active within the civil rights movement, which he had once opposed. He has spoken and written extensively on civil rights and social justice.
A native of Mobile, Alabama, Turnipseed received his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where he met his wife, Judy, while she was a graduate student at the institution. Judy Turnipseed is the office manager of Turnipseed & Associates law firm in the capital city of Columbia, South Carolina. The couple wed in 1963 and have two children, Jeff and Jeny. Jefferson Davis Turnipseed and his wife, the former Cynthia "Cyndy" Smith, are attorneys at Turnipseed & Associates. Jeny of Atlanta, Georgia, is a homemaker and a former special education teacher. Her husband, Gil (last name missing), is an actuary.
In 1966, Turnipseed became the first executive director of the South Carolina Independent School Association, an accrediting agency set up to legitimize segregation academies.
Turnipseed was the executive director of the George Wallace presidential campaign, 1968, when the former governor of Alabama received 13 percent of the vote against Hubert Humphrey and Richard M. Nixon. After the American Independent Party campaign, Turnipseed, like Wallace, returned to the Democratic Party. Turnipseed soon embraced the party's liberal majority wing and joined the interest group, Americans for Democratic Action, founded in 1947 by, among others, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther, John Kenneth Galbraith, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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