Congressional Directory for the 105th Congress (1997-1998), June 1997.
[Pages 261-263]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



    ERNEST F. HOLLINGS, Democrat, of Charleston, SC; born in Charleston, 
January 1, 1922; son of Wilhelmine Meyer and Adolph G. Hollings; 
graduated, The Citadel, B.A., 1942; University of South Carolina, LL.B., 
1947; LL.D. The Citadel, June 1959; lawyer; member of Charleston County, 
South Carolina, and American bar associations; admitted to practice 
before South Carolina Supreme Court, U.S. District Court, U.S. Circuit 
Court of Appeals, U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Customs Court, and U.S. Supreme 
Court; member, St. John's Lutheran Church; member, Court of 
Adjudication, Lutheran Church in America; Armed Forces, 1942-45, served 
overseas from Africa to Austria, 33 months; 353rd Antiaircraft 
Artillery; 3rd, 36th, and 45th Divisions, captain; member, highest honor 
society at The Citadel--The Round Table; president of the alumni (the 
Association of Citadel Men), 1954; at the University of South Carolina 
Law School--member, Honor Society, Wig and Robe, South Carolina Law 
Review, and president of Law Federation; honorary doctor of letters 
degree, Benedict College, Columbia, SC, 1971; Charleston Junior Chamber 
of Commerce Distinguished Service Award as Young Man of the Year, 1953; 
U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce, one of ten Outstanding Young Men of the 
United States, 1954; South Carolina Veteran of the Year, 1957; member, 
Hibernian Society, Arion Society, Sertoma Club; Charleston Rifle Club; 
Mason, LeCandeur No. 36, AFM; Shriner, Omar Temple; BPOE Lodge No. 242; 
American Legion, Post No. 10; Charleston Chamber of Commerce; Veterans 
of Foreign Wars; Captain John L. Weeks Post No. 3142; elected to South 
Carolina General Assembly from Charleston County, 1948, 1950, and 1952; 
chairman, Charleston County legislative delegation; speaker pro tempore, 
South Carolina House of Representatives; elected twice by unanimous 
vote, 1951, 1953; elected lieutenant governor, November 2, 1954; elected 
governor, November 4, 1958; served as Governor, 1959-63; appointed to 
Hoover Commission May 15, 1955; appointed by President Eisenhower to 
Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, December 1959; 
reappointed by President Kennedy, February 1962; chairman, Regional 
Advisory Council on Nuclear Energy; instituted technical training 
program in South Carolina, Nuclear Space Commission, and Commission on 
Higher Education; married to the former Rita Louise Liddy of Charleston, 
SC; four children: Michael Milhous, Helen Hayne, Patricia Salley, and 
Ernest Frederick Hollings III; author of ``The Case Against Hunger--A 
Demand for a National Policy,'' 1970; elected to the U.S. Senate, 
November 8, 1966, to complete the unexpired term of the late Senator 
Olin D. Johnston; elected to full six-year term November 5, 1968; 
reelected 1974, 1980, 1986 and 1992; ranking member: Senate Commerce, 
Science and Transportation Committee; other committee assignments: 
Appropriations, Budget.


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