Term as governor (1999–2003) Acts as governor Īs South Carolina's 114th governor, Hodges signed a law that made Martin Luther King, Jr. Hodges became the first challenger to defeat a sitting governor since the South Carolina constitution first allowed consecutive terms in 1980. In what was reported as an upset victory, Hodges won the gubernatorial race with a 53 to 45 percent margin and won 35 of 46 counties. Donations from video gambling interests helped Hodges narrow a near million-dollar fundraising gap with Beasley. Hodges entered the 1998 gubernatorial election in South Carolina an underdog but took advantage of controversy and missteps by incumbent Republican governor David Beasley, namely Beasley's indecisiveness on allowing a Confederate flag to fly at the state capitol and call to eliminate video poker. Main article: 1998 South Carolina gubernatorial election Governor of South Carolina Gubernatorial election, 1998 While serving in the state legislature, Hodges also worked as general counsel for The Springs Company. The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce named Hodges "Legislator of the Year" in 1993, and the National Federation of Independent Business bestowed Hodges with its "Guardian of Small Business" award. While in the House, Hodges served as chair of the House Judiciary Committee from 1992 until 1994 and as House Democratic Leader from 1995 until 1997. South Carolina House of Representatives Īt age 30, Hodges first won an election in a December 1986 special election for the 45th district seat in the South Carolina House of Representatives vacated by the late Tom Mangum. From 1983 to 1986, Hodges served as Lancaster County Attorney. from the University of South Carolina School of Law. During his undergraduate studies, Hodges worked summers at a cotton mill to pay for his schooling. He attended Davidson College but later transferred to the University of South Carolina, where he completed a BSBA in 1979 and earned election to Phi Beta Kappa. He grew up in Lancaster, South Carolina, near the North Carolina border. James Hovis Hodges was born on November 19, 1956, to parents George N. Since his victory in 1998, Hodges has remained the only Democrat elected to the South Carolina Governor's office since the 1982 election. Topics of Conversation is her first novel.James Hovis Hodges (born November 19, 1956) is an American businessman, attorney, and politician who served as the 114th governor of South Carolina from 1999 to 2003. MP: It’s very bad form to say mine, but-what the heck: Adam Driver, if you’re reading this, call me! I have a part for you! It’ll also make you want to shoot Jackson Pollock into the moon.īM: Book you wish would be adapted for a film/tv show?
It’ll make you-it’s making me-want to read individual biographies of each painter. MP: Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women, a group biography of Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler. I find that pickle dish moving! So sue me! MP: I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite, but I do want to put in a good word for Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome, which gets a lot of hate on the internet these days (to be fair to the internet, I’ve never met anyone in real life either who likes it as much as I do). I’ve said too much.īM: Favorite book you were assigned in high school? MP: Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient specifically the Katharine section.
Hot tip: don’t read Henry James on an e-reader it makes the sentences longer somehow.īM: What’s a book with a really great sex scene? But first I have to re-read Portrait of a Lady, which I did not exactly get the first time around.
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Written by Berryman’s shockingly well-adjusted first wife-after they divorced, she became a psychotherapist-it’s also miraculously free of rancor.īM: Classic book on your To Be Read pile? John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, and others in their circle, just before everyone started drinking too much and everything went to hell. MP: Poets in Their Youth, by Eileen Simpson. It’s YA, but if you’re interested in the female gaze, circa now, trust me-whether or not you think of yourself as a YA reader, this one’s for you. I love each of Zan’s three books (in addition to Look, she’s the author of A Song to Take the World Apart and Grace and the Fever) absolutely unreservedly, but Look is really special: a retelling of Bluebeard set in the world of LA private schools. MP: Zan Romanoff, a brilliant writer who also happens to be my best friend, wrote a novel called Lookthat came out last March. BM: What book from the past year would you like to give a shout-out to?
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