Richard Wilson Riley

Former Governor of South Carolina

RICHARD WILSON RILEY was born in Greenville County, South Carolina. He graduated cum laude from Furman University in 1954, earning a bachelor’s degree in political science. He then served for two years as a communications officer in the U.S. Navy aboard a minesweeper. Following his naval service, Riley earned a law degree from the South Carolina School of Law. After serving for a year as legal counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, he returned to South Carolina to join his family's law firm in Greenville and Simpsonville. In 1962, he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives, where he served for four years. He was then elected to the state Senate, serving until 1976. During his two gubernatorial terms, Riley chaired the Southern Governors' Association and the Southern Growth Policies Board. He served two terms on the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations: the first, from 1977 to 1979, as a private citizen; and the second, from 1979 to 1981, as governor. In 1981, the National Wildlife Federation presented Riley with the Connie award for special conservation achievement. Winning national recognition for his highly successful effort to improve education in South Carolina, he was appointed Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education by President Bill Clinton, a post in which he served for eight years. After leaving the Department of Education in early 2001, Riley returned to the private practice of law. He currently serves as well as a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation and is a Distinguished Professor at his alma mater--Furman University--and Advisory Board Chair of the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Leadership there.

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Donald L Fowler Sr	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Doris Okada Matsui, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, John McKee Spratt Jr, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Butler Carson Derrick Jr, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of South Carolina, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Jeanne Shaheen, Elizabeth J Patterson, Blanche L Lincoln, Gloria Bromell Tinubu
Samuel J Tenenbaum	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, John McKee Spratt Jr, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Butler Carson Derrick Jr, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of South Carolina, Building Relationships in Diverse Geographic Environments PAC (Bridge PAC), Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Brent Alan Weaver, Jeanne Shaheen, Robert Lauransom Miller, Gloria Bromell Tinubu
William M Webster IV	Erskine B Bowles, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, John McKee Spratt Jr, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Butler Carson Derrick Jr, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of South Carolina, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Mitt Romney, Elizabeth J Patterson, Paul H Corden, Blanche L Lincoln
Al Dwoskin	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Doris Okada Matsui, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, John McKee Spratt Jr, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of South Carolina, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Jeanne Shaheen, Blanche L Lincoln
Daniel C Tate Jr	Erskine B Bowles, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Doris Okada Matsui, Bill Nelson, John McKee Spratt Jr, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Jeanne Shaheen, Robert Lauransom Miller, Blanche L Lincoln
Crandall Close Bowles	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McKee Spratt Jr, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of South Carolina, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Jeanne Shaheen, Blanche L Lincoln
Suzan Boyd	Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, John McKee Spratt Jr, Debbie Stabenow, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of South Carolina, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Brent Alan Weaver, Jeanne Shaheen, Robert Lauransom Miller, Blanche L Lincoln
Jay Rockefeller	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Jeanne Shaheen, Blanche L Lincoln
Vernon E Jordan Jr	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, Debbie Stabenow, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Jeanne Shaheen, Robert Lauransom Miller, Blanche L Lincoln
Thomas F McLarty III	Erskine B Bowles, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, John McKee Spratt Jr, Debbie Stabenow, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of South Carolina, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Jeanne Shaheen, Blanche L Lincoln
Charles W Patrick Jr	Hillary Clinton, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, John McKee Spratt Jr, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of South Carolina, Building Relationships in Diverse Geographic Environments PAC (Bridge PAC), Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Brent Alan Weaver, Robert Lauransom Miller
Lynne Wasserman	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of South Carolina, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Jeanne Shaheen
Amy Rothschild Friedkin	Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Doris Okada Matsui, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Jeanne Shaheen, Blanche L Lincoln
Steven Rattner	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Jeanne Shaheen, Blanche L Lincoln
Ronald L Platt	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Bill Nelson, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Jeanne Shaheen, Blanche L Lincoln
Robert L Johnson	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Building Relationships in Diverse Geographic Environments PAC (Bridge PAC), Robert Lauransom Miller, Blanche L Lincoln
Anne Bartley	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Jeanne Shaheen, Blanche L Lincoln
Tony Podesta	Erskine B Bowles, Hillary Clinton, Jim Clyburn, Doris Okada Matsui, Bill Nelson, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Jeanne Shaheen, Blanche L Lincoln
Charles T Manatt	Erskine B Bowles, Harvey B Gantt, Hillary Clinton, Doris Okada Matsui, Debbie Stabenow, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Alexander M Sanders Jr, Irish American Democrats, Jeanne Shaheen, Blanche L Lincoln
Alicia W Smith	Hillary Clinton, Doris Okada Matsui, Bill Nelson, Barack Obama, Ernest Frederick Hollings, Butler Carson Derrick Jr, Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic National Committee, Democratic Party of South Carolina, Inez Moore Tenenbaum, Jeanne Shaheen, Blanche L Lincoln

Types	Person, Political Candidate, Elected Representative
Birthday	Jan 2 '33

Richard Wilson Riley

Former Governor of South Carolina

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