Joe Cunningham

US Representative for South Carolina's 1st district, first elected in Nov. 2018 Cunningham's carreer as an ocean engineer was cut short when he was laid off in 2008, prompting him to enroll in Law School, where he graduated in 2011, Although only defeating Katie Arington, the Republican candidate, by 50.7% of the vote, Cunningham victory was a major upset in a state where it had been more than 30 years that the Democrats had flipped a US House seat.