Kenneth Lamar Holland

Kenneth Lamar Holland (1975)

Kenneth Lamar Holland (born November 24, 1934 in Hickory , Catawba County , North Carolina ) is an American politician . Between 1975 and 1983 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Kenneth Holland attended public schools in Gaffney and then studied until 1960 at the University of South Carolina at Columbia . In the meantime he was a member of the South Carolina National Guard from 1952 to 1959. After completing a law degree at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1963, he began working in his new profession in Camden .

Politically, Holland joined the Democratic Party . Between 1968 and 1972 he was a delegate at the regional democratic party conferences. In 1968 he also took part in the Democratic National Convention in Chicago . Between 1972 and 1975, Holland was a member of the South Carolina State Highway Committee. In the 1974 congressional election, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of South Carolina , where he succeeded Thomas S. Gettys on January 3, 1975 . After three re-elections, Holland could complete four consecutive terms in Congress until January 3, 1983 .

In 1982 he decided not to run again. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. In 2006 he was considering running for gubernatorial elections in South Carolina. After only one month, he withdrew his application for financial reasons. Today Kenneth Holland lives in Gaffney. He has three children and three grandchildren.

Web links

• Kenneth Lamar Holland in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)