1. Curtis Loftis currently serves as the Treasurer of South Carolina.
21 Facts About Curtis Loftis
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Curtis Loftis attended Brookland-Cayce High School and graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1981.
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Curtis Loftis was twice elected president of the Student Senate and served as president of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
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Curtis Loftis is the owner of several central South Carolina businesses and is involved in real estate.
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In 1999, Curtis Loftis established Saluda Charitable Foundation and remains the principal benefactor.
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In March 2010, Curtis Loftis announced his candidacy for Treasurer of South Carolina in the Republican primary.
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Curtis Loftis was endorsed by former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, and former US Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.
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Curtis Loftis received many state Tea Party movement endorsements including many in the business community and several newspaper endorsements.
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Treasurer Curtis Loftis became the first Republican to defeat a sitting incumbent in a statewide GOP primary.
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In 2024, Curtis Loftis became embroiled in a battle over who was responsible for $1.8 billion that was left sitting in state accounts for several years, unbeknownst to legislators, some of whom wanted to remove him from office.
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The money never had been properly distributed to state agencies because, Curtis Loftis said, it did not have the required codes when it was put into a special account during a software transition.
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Curtis Loftis backed down after calls from the chief of the State Law Enforcement Division and Gov.
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Curtis Loftis has said he would not seek reelection in 2026.
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Treasurer Curtis Loftis defeated Rosalyn Glenn and Sarah Work in the general election on November 6,2018.
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Treasurer Curtis Loftis had no primary opponent and as such was automatically the Republican nominee.
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Treasurer Curtis Loftis is the Vice Chairman of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority.
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Treasurer Curtis Loftis is Chairman of the Board of Financial Institutions which supervises state chartered financial institutions and supervises mortgage originators and lenders, finance companies, pay day lenders, and title lenders.
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Curtis Loftis is a member of the South Carolina Retirement System Investment Commission, which manages the $27 billion fund and a member of the South Carolina Education Authority.
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Treasurer Curtis Loftis served as State Chairman of Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign in South Carolina.
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Treasurer Curtis Loftis served as the Chairman of South Carolina's delegation to the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fl.
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On June 5,2020, during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests and immediately following the COVID-19 quarantine, Curtis Loftis posted criticism of Black Lives Matter in a Facebook post, expressing support for several far-right conspiracy theories, including forced-human-microchipping, health passports, and toxic vaccinations.