Clyburn, James

LC control no.	n 2004093342
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Clyburn, James *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1940-07-12
Place of birth	Sumter (S.C.)
Affiliation	South Carolina State University South Carolina. General Assembly. House of Representatives
Profession or occupation	Legislators Civil rights workers
Found in	Clyburn, James. Uncommon courage, c2004: ECIP t.p. (Congressman James Clyburn) African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Clyburn, James Enos; U.S. representative, civil rights activist; born 12 July 1940 in Sumter, South Carolina, United States; he graduated from Mather Academy in 1957; received a BS from South Carolina State (1962), the newly elected he became the first African American adviser to a South Carolina governor since Reconstruction (1971); served as assistant to the governor for human resources (1971-1974), helping organize the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission in 1972; was named the second commissioner of the South Carolina Human Affairs Commission (1974); was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives; became co-president of the freshman class (1993), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (1998), vice chair of the House Democratic Caucus (2002), and Democratic Caucus chair (2005); after the Democrats took control of the House in November 2006, he was elected majority whip, the third most powerful position in the House)