1. John Jenrette was in the US House of Representatives as a Democrat from January 1975 until December 1980.
23 Facts About John Jenrette
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John Jenrette was convicted of accepting a bribe in the FBI's Abscam sting operation, and served more than a year in prison.
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John Jenrette was a descendant of French Huguenot refugees who settled in northeastern South Carolina in the 1700s.
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John Jenrette graduated from Loris High School, where he was a three-sport athletic star, in 1954.
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John Jenrette served on active duty as a US Army officer and then served several years in the South Carolina National Guard.
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John Jenrette was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1964, where he represented Horry County, South Carolina, which includes Myrtle Beach.
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John Jenrette retired from the state house to run for a seat in the US House in 1972.
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John Jenrette initiated the effort to convert the old post office building in Columbia into a facility for the State Supreme Court, and persuaded the US Air Force to allow commercial air traffic at the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base.
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John Jenrette was fairly liberal by South Carolina standards of the time.
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John Jenrette seemed out of place representing a rather conservative and mostly rural congressional district in northeastern South Carolina.
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John Jenrette performed well in his first two years in Congress and easily defeated Young again in 1976.
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John Jenrette was selected to join the House Majority leadership team as a Deputy Whip shortly after arriving in Washington in 1975, and he served on the Democratic leadership team as a Deputy Whip for all six years he served in Congress.
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John Jenrette served first on the House Agriculture Committee and then on the prestigious House Appropriations Committee.
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John Jenrette was the founder and first Chairman of the Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus.
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John Jenrette placed great emphasis on constituent service, and he and his staff were widely recognized as the most responsive office the Sixth District had ever seen.
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John Jenrette was the first Member of Congress to endorse Jimmy Carter for President.
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John Jenrette is most famous for two things during his days as a Congressman.
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John Jenrette was recorded saying he had been given a cash loan by an associate.
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John Jenrette was sentenced to two years in prison, of which he served 13 months.
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John Jenrette was defeated for re-election in 1980 and resigned from Congress on December 10, just days before the end of his term.
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John Jenrette subsequently ran a public relations firm called Lehuguenot, Ltd.
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John Jenrette imported wine from Hungary and antique furniture from Eastern Europe.
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John Jenrette became a developer of major coastal property in North Myrtle Beach, and lived with his third wife Rosemary in a beachfront home in Myrtle Beach.