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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr.
|image=Carroll Campbell of SC.jpg
|office=112th [[Governor]] of [[ South Carolina]]
|term_start=January 14, 1987
|term_end=January 11, 1995
|preceded=Richard Wilson Riley
|succeeded=David Muldrow Beasley
|office2=Chairman of the<br>
National Governors Association
|term_start2=August 17, 1993
|term_end2=July 19, 1994
|preceded2=Roy Romer ([[Colorado]])
|succeeded2=[[Howard Dean]] ([[Vermont]])
|office3=[[U. S. Representative]] for South Carolina's 4th congressional district
|term_start3=January 3, 1979
|term_end3=January 3, 1987
|preceded3=James Robert Mann
|succeeded3=Liz Johnston Patterson
|office4=South Carolina State Senator for the 2nd district
|term_start4=January 11, 1977
|term_end4=November 6, 1978
|preceded4=Richard Wilson Riley
|succeeded4=Jeff Richardson
|office5=South Carolina State Representative for Greenville County
|term_start5=December 1970
|term_end5=December 1974
|preceded5=Thomas Wesley Greene
|succeeded5=District eliminated
|birth_date=July 24, 1940
|birth_place=Greenville, South Carolina.
|death_date=December 7, 2005 (aged 65)
|death_place=West Columbia, South Carolina.
|resting_place=All Saints Episcopal Church Cemetery in Pawleys Island
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Iris Rhodes Campbell (married 1959-2005, his death)
|children=Michael Campbell<br>Carroll A. Campbell, III
|alma_mater=[[University of South Carolina]]<br>[[American University]] ([[Master of Arts]])
}}
'''Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr.''' (July 24, 1940 – December 7, 2005), was the second [[Republican Party|Republican]] since [[Reconstruction]] elected as the [[Governor]] of his native [[South Carolina]]. He served two terms from 1987 to 1995. Previously, he was a [[U.S. Representative]] and a member of both houses of the state legislature. After leaving the governorship, he engaged in private business and [[lobbying]].<ref name=findagrave>Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. (1940-2005) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed September 29, 2021.</ref>
==Background==
Born in Greenville, the largest city in western South Carolina, Campbell was the oldest of six children of Carroll A. Campbell, Sr. (1915-1997). His mother was the former Ann Marshall Williams (1916-1977). The parents divorced and are interred at separate cemeteries.<ref name=findagrave.com/> The senior Campbell worked in the textile mills, the furniture business, and later owned a motel in Garden City in Horry County near Myrtle Beach in eastern South Carolina.
Campbell dropped out of Greenville Senior High School; an uncle sent him to the private McCallie School in Chattanooga, [[Tennessee]]. Campbell attended the [[University of South Carolina]] in the capital city of [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]] but withdrew because of financial concerns. He later received a [[Master of Arts]] from the private [[American University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=cbg/>
==Political career==
In 1970, six years after passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], Campbell opposed the integration of public schools in Greenville. He spoke at a rally attended by thousands of [[Segregation|segregationists]] at Parker High School. On January 25, he led an 800-vehicle motorcade to the state capital to protest "forced busing" of students to integrated schools. His position on busing was like that of later [[U.S. Senator]] and [[U.S. President]] [[Joe Biden]] of [[Delaware]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/2019/11/02/how-greenville-integrated-schools-peacefully-1970/2483407001/ |title=How Greenville County's public schools integrated peacefully in 1970 |publisher=''The Greenville News''|author=Judith Bainbridge|date=November 2, 2019|accessdate=November3, 2019}}</ref>
Campbell served as a state representative from 1971 to 1975 during the administration of Governor [[John C. West]], who defeated Republican nominee [[Albert Watson]], the choice of [[U.S. Senator]] [[Strom Thurmond]], in the 1970 South Carolina gubernatorial election. With [[Lee Atwater]] as a key political strategist, Campbell ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1974. He lost to the Democrat W. Brantley Harvey, Jr. (1930-2018), but his ticket mate, [[James B. Edwards]], a state senator and oral surgeon from [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] won the governorship. Despite the loss, Campbell would continue to seek Atwater's counsel throughout his career.
From 1976 to 1978, Campbell was a state senator and the executive assistant to Governor Edwards. In 1978, Campbell was elected U.S. Representative for the Greenville-based 4th congressional district; he defeated [[Max Heller]], the Democratic mayor of Greenville and an emigrant from [[Austria]], to fill the seat vacated by the retiring Democrat James Robert Mann.<ref name=cbg>{{cite web|author=Cole Blease Graham|date=Spring 1998|title=Between a Rock and a Hard Place: South Carolina's Republican Presidential Primary|publisher=Southern Cultures|volume=4| issue = 1|pages=48|doi=10.1353/scu.1998.0091|jstor=26235530|s2cid==145306010}}</ref> Campbell hence became the first Republican to hold the 4th district seat since Reconstruction.
He was the state campaign chairman for [[Ronald Reagan]]'s successful 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns.
and as southern regional chairman for [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] in 1988.
As governor, Campbell coordinated the state's response to [[Hurricane Hugo]] in 1989. He lured BMW, a [[Germamy|German]] company, to build its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Greer, near Greenville, South Carolina.<ref name=nga>{{cite web|url=https://www.nga.org/governor/carroll-a-campbell/|title=Carroll A. Campbell|publisher=National Governors Association|accessdate=September 29, 2021}}</ref> In 2002, BMW contributed $10 million for the Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center at [[Clemson University]].
During the Campbell administration, the state was confronted with allegations of financial mismanagement at the University of South Carolina, which led to the resignation of the university president James B. Holderman.. Twenty-seven state legislators were convicted in a vote-buying scandal uncovered by a federal investigation into [[bribery]] and [[narcotics]] abuse against the lawmakers and several other individuals.<ref>Lpu Krasky, "USC's James Holderman: From President to Criminal," ''The State,'' accessed October 1, 2021; under pay wall.</ref> He was the president of the National
Governor's Association from 1993 to 1994.<ref name=nga/> He could not run again in 1994, and he was succeeded by another Republican, David Muldrow Beasley (born 1957). He left office with a high job approval rating.
From 1995 to 2001, Campbell was a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and the president and chief executive officer of the American Council of Life Insurers.<ref name=nga/>
In 1996, Campbell was considered as a possible vice presidential running mate for [[Bob Dole]] of [[Kansas]] but was ultimately passed over in favor of [[Jack Kemp]], the former U.S. Representative from [[New York]]'s 31st congressional district and later the [[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]] under the first President Bush.Dole and Kemp lost to [[Bill Clinton]] and [[Al Gore]]
In 1998, Campbell and his wife became the co-chairmen of Winthrop University's first capital campaign. They raised more than $30 million.<ref name=herald>Dan O'Mara, "Winthrop alum Lois Rhame West, former SC first lady and 'bright light,'' ''The Rock Hill Herald,'' May 6, 2014.</ref>
==Family and death==
Campbell eloped in 1959 with the former Iris Faye Rhodes. They had two sons, Carroll Campbell, III, and Mike Campbell, the former of whom unsuccessfully sought the 2010 Republican nomination for South Carolina's 1st congressional district to succeed Representative Henry E. Brown, Jr.; and the latter of whom was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 2006. The Campbells own franchises for [[Wendy's]] restaurants in South Carolina.<refk name=funeral/>
In October 2001, at the age of sixty-one, Campbell was diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref name=letter>{{cite web|author=Carroll Campbell|url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0EEFADD6230D8226|title=Letter from Carroll Campbell|date=October 5, 2001|publisher=''The State''|accessdate=April 2, 2020}}</ref> The revelation forced him to abandon plans to run for governor again in 2002. He was admitted to a long-term residential treatment facility for Alzheimer's patients in August 2005 and died four months later at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia
He lay in state at the State House and was eulogized at memorial services at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, and at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pawleys Island in Georgetown County.<ref name=funeral>{{cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?190284-1/south-carolina-governor-carroll-campbell-funeral|title=South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell Funeral {{!}} C-SPAN.org|website=www.c-span.org|language=en-us|accessdate=October 1, 2021}}</ref> He is interred at the All Saints Episcopal Church in Pawley Island in Georgetown County.<ref name=findagrave/>
==References==
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Carroll}}
[[Category:South Carolina]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Republican Governors]]
[[Category:South Carolina Governors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]
|name=Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr.
|image=Carroll Campbell of SC.jpg
|office=112th [[Governor]] of [[ South Carolina]]
|term_start=January 14, 1987
|term_end=January 11, 1995
|preceded=Richard Wilson Riley
|succeeded=David Muldrow Beasley
|office2=Chairman of the<br>
National Governors Association
|term_start2=August 17, 1993
|term_end2=July 19, 1994
|preceded2=Roy Romer ([[Colorado]])
|succeeded2=[[Howard Dean]] ([[Vermont]])
|office3=[[U. S. Representative]] for South Carolina's 4th congressional district
|term_start3=January 3, 1979
|term_end3=January 3, 1987
|preceded3=James Robert Mann
|succeeded3=Liz Johnston Patterson
|office4=South Carolina State Senator for the 2nd district
|term_start4=January 11, 1977
|term_end4=November 6, 1978
|preceded4=Richard Wilson Riley
|succeeded4=Jeff Richardson
|office5=South Carolina State Representative for Greenville County
|term_start5=December 1970
|term_end5=December 1974
|preceded5=Thomas Wesley Greene
|succeeded5=District eliminated
|birth_date=July 24, 1940
|birth_place=Greenville, South Carolina.
|death_date=December 7, 2005 (aged 65)
|death_place=West Columbia, South Carolina.
|resting_place=All Saints Episcopal Church Cemetery in Pawleys Island
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|spouse=Iris Rhodes Campbell (married 1959-2005, his death)
|children=Michael Campbell<br>Carroll A. Campbell, III
|alma_mater=[[University of South Carolina]]<br>[[American University]] ([[Master of Arts]])
}}
'''Carroll Ashmore Campbell, Jr.''' (July 24, 1940 – December 7, 2005), was the second [[Republican Party|Republican]] since [[Reconstruction]] elected as the [[Governor]] of his native [[South Carolina]]. He served two terms from 1987 to 1995. Previously, he was a [[U.S. Representative]] and a member of both houses of the state legislature. After leaving the governorship, he engaged in private business and [[lobbying]].<ref name=findagrave>Carroll Ashmore Campbell Jr. (1940-2005) - Find A Grave Memorial, accessed September 29, 2021.</ref>
==Background==
Born in Greenville, the largest city in western South Carolina, Campbell was the oldest of six children of Carroll A. Campbell, Sr. (1915-1997). His mother was the former Ann Marshall Williams (1916-1977). The parents divorced and are interred at separate cemeteries.<ref name=findagrave.com/> The senior Campbell worked in the textile mills, the furniture business, and later owned a motel in Garden City in Horry County near Myrtle Beach in eastern South Carolina.
Campbell dropped out of Greenville Senior High School; an uncle sent him to the private McCallie School in Chattanooga, [[Tennessee]]. Campbell attended the [[University of South Carolina]] in the capital city of [[Columbia, South Carolina|Columbia]] but withdrew because of financial concerns. He later received a [[Master of Arts]] from the private [[American University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref name=cbg/>
==Political career==
In 1970, six years after passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]], Campbell opposed the integration of public schools in Greenville. He spoke at a rally attended by thousands of [[Segregation|segregationists]] at Parker High School. On January 25, he led an 800-vehicle motorcade to the state capital to protest "forced busing" of students to integrated schools. His position on busing was like that of later [[U.S. Senator]] and [[U.S. President]] [[Joe Biden]] of [[Delaware]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/opinion/2019/11/02/how-greenville-integrated-schools-peacefully-1970/2483407001/ |title=How Greenville County's public schools integrated peacefully in 1970 |publisher=''The Greenville News''|author=Judith Bainbridge|date=November 2, 2019|accessdate=November3, 2019}}</ref>
Campbell served as a state representative from 1971 to 1975 during the administration of Governor [[John C. West]], who defeated Republican nominee [[Albert Watson]], the choice of [[U.S. Senator]] [[Strom Thurmond]], in the 1970 South Carolina gubernatorial election. With [[Lee Atwater]] as a key political strategist, Campbell ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1974. He lost to the Democrat W. Brantley Harvey, Jr. (1930-2018), but his ticket mate, [[James B. Edwards]], a state senator and oral surgeon from [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]] won the governorship. Despite the loss, Campbell would continue to seek Atwater's counsel throughout his career.
From 1976 to 1978, Campbell was a state senator and the executive assistant to Governor Edwards. In 1978, Campbell was elected U.S. Representative for the Greenville-based 4th congressional district; he defeated [[Max Heller]], the Democratic mayor of Greenville and an emigrant from [[Austria]], to fill the seat vacated by the retiring Democrat James Robert Mann.<ref name=cbg>{{cite web|author=Cole Blease Graham|date=Spring 1998|title=Between a Rock and a Hard Place: South Carolina's Republican Presidential Primary|publisher=Southern Cultures|volume=4| issue = 1|pages=48|doi=10.1353/scu.1998.0091|jstor=26235530|s2cid==145306010}}</ref> Campbell hence became the first Republican to hold the 4th district seat since Reconstruction.
He was the state campaign chairman for [[Ronald Reagan]]'s successful 1980 and 1984 presidential campaigns.
and as southern regional chairman for [[George Herbert Walker Bush]] in 1988.
As governor, Campbell coordinated the state's response to [[Hurricane Hugo]] in 1989. He lured BMW, a [[Germamy|German]] company, to build its first U.S. manufacturing facility in Greer, near Greenville, South Carolina.<ref name=nga>{{cite web|url=https://www.nga.org/governor/carroll-a-campbell/|title=Carroll A. Campbell|publisher=National Governors Association|accessdate=September 29, 2021}}</ref> In 2002, BMW contributed $10 million for the Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center at [[Clemson University]].
During the Campbell administration, the state was confronted with allegations of financial mismanagement at the University of South Carolina, which led to the resignation of the university president James B. Holderman.. Twenty-seven state legislators were convicted in a vote-buying scandal uncovered by a federal investigation into [[bribery]] and [[narcotics]] abuse against the lawmakers and several other individuals.<ref>Lpu Krasky, "USC's James Holderman: From President to Criminal," ''The State,'' accessed October 1, 2021; under pay wall.</ref> He was the president of the National
Governor's Association from 1993 to 1994.<ref name=nga/> He could not run again in 1994, and he was succeeded by another Republican, David Muldrow Beasley (born 1957). He left office with a high job approval rating.
From 1995 to 2001, Campbell was a lobbyist in Washington, D.C., and the president and chief executive officer of the American Council of Life Insurers.<ref name=nga/>
In 1996, Campbell was considered as a possible vice presidential running mate for [[Bob Dole]] of [[Kansas]] but was ultimately passed over in favor of [[Jack Kemp]], the former U.S. Representative from [[New York]]'s 31st congressional district and later the [[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]] under the first President Bush.Dole and Kemp lost to [[Bill Clinton]] and [[Al Gore]]
In 1998, Campbell and his wife became the co-chairmen of Winthrop University's first capital campaign. They raised more than $30 million.<ref name=herald>Dan O'Mara, "Winthrop alum Lois Rhame West, former SC first lady and 'bright light,'' ''The Rock Hill Herald,'' May 6, 2014.</ref>
==Family and death==
Campbell eloped in 1959 with the former Iris Faye Rhodes. They had two sons, Carroll Campbell, III, and Mike Campbell, the former of whom unsuccessfully sought the 2010 Republican nomination for South Carolina's 1st congressional district to succeed Representative Henry E. Brown, Jr.; and the latter of whom was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 2006. The Campbells own franchises for [[Wendy's]] restaurants in South Carolina.<refk name=funeral/>
In October 2001, at the age of sixty-one, Campbell was diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's disease]].<ref name=letter>{{cite web|author=Carroll Campbell|url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=WORLDNEWS&docref=news/0EEFADD6230D8226|title=Letter from Carroll Campbell|date=October 5, 2001|publisher=''The State''|accessdate=April 2, 2020}}</ref> The revelation forced him to abandon plans to run for governor again in 2002. He was admitted to a long-term residential treatment facility for Alzheimer's patients in August 2005 and died four months later at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia
He lay in state at the State House and was eulogized at memorial services at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, and at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pawleys Island in Georgetown County.<ref name=funeral>{{cite web|url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?190284-1/south-carolina-governor-carroll-campbell-funeral|title=South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell Funeral {{!}} C-SPAN.org|website=www.c-span.org|language=en-us|accessdate=October 1, 2021}}</ref> He is interred at the All Saints Episcopal Church in Pawley Island in Georgetown County.<ref name=findagrave/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Carroll}}
[[Category:South Carolina]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:State Representatives]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Former United States Representatives]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Republican Governors]]
[[Category:South Carolina Governors]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Episcopalians]]