1. Nick Andrew Theodore was born on September 16,1928 and is a former American politician from South Carolina.
11 Facts About Nick Theodore
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Nick Theodore was the first Greek-American elected to the South Carolina State Legislature.
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Nick Theodore served as a state representative from 1963 to 1966 and 1970 to 1978, a South Carolina state senator from 1967 to 1968 and from 1981 to 1986, and the 85th lieutenant governor of South Carolina from 1987 to 1995.
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Nick Theodore is a member of the Democratic Party, and is the most recent Democrat elected as South Carolina's Lieutenant Governor.
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Nick Theodore attended the University of Georgia and graduated in 1952 from Furman University with a Bachelors in Business.
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Nick Theodore spent a total of 24 years serving in the South Carolina state legislature before being elected in 1986 to the office of lieutenant governor having beaten Republican Congressman Thomas F Hartnett to the position.
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Nick Theodore served two full terms in that post under Republican Governor Carroll Campbell.
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Nick Theodore had attended Nancy's 22nd birthday party only two weeks earlier.
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Nick Theodore lost to Campbell's protege David Beasley in the general election.
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In 2002, Nick Theodore came out of a quasi-retirement to accept an interim appointment to the South Carolina Public Service Commission, ending in 2004.
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In 2006, his son, Drew Nick Theodore, became the Democratic nominee for the statewide office of Comptroller General.