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...maelstrom of political fury is building in South Carolina. This year's senatorial race pits Charles D. Ravenel '61 against incumbent Republican Strom Thurmond, a bastion of national, conservative politics...
...While Ravenel is no stranger to South Carolina's political scene, he is a comparative newcomer. In his only previous bid for public office, "Pug," as his friends call him, stunned South Carolina's political hierarchy by winning the 1974 Democratic gubernatorial primary. He was not allowed to participate in the general election, however, for a controversial court decision reversed a lower court's ruling that he met the state's eligibility requirements...
This decision not only removed Ravenel from a race he was expected to win, but it also allowed James Edwards to become the first Republican governor of South Carolina in over 100 years...
...Ravenel had seldom known this sort of misfortune in his earlier years. A native of Charleston, S.C., he was First Marshal of his class at Harvard, and later entered Harvard Business School. Afterward, he became a successful investment banker on Wall St. and a White House Fellow...
...these years of absence from South Carolina, while training him for his political role, also proved to be the cause of his non-eligibility in 1974. This disappointment is now behind Ravenel, though, and although he faces an uphill fight, recent polls have shown that Thurmond's margin is only a slim...