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James Enos "Jim" Clyburn (born July 21, 1940) is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 1993, and the Assistant Democratic Leader since 2011.〔(A new era for SC: Clyburn, Scott get top House posts ), James Rosen, ''McClatchy Newspapers'', November 17, 2010〕 He was previously House Majority Whip, serving in that post from 2007 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district includes large portions of Columbia and Charleston, as well as several rural areas between them. As Assistant Democratic Leader, he is the third-ranking Democrat in the House behind House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Minority Whip Steny Hoyer. == Early life and education == Clyburn was born in Sumter, South Carolina, the son of Enos Lloyd Clyburn, a fundamentalist minister, and his wife, Almeta (née Dizzley), a beautician. A distant relative of his was George W. Murray, an organizer for the Colored Farmers Alliance (CFA), who was elected as a Republican South Carolina Congressman in the 53rd and 54th U.S. Congresses in the late nineteenth century. He and other black politicians had strongly opposed the 1895 state constitution, which essentially disfranchised most African-American citizens, a situation that the state maintained for more than half a century until passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s. Clyburn graduated from Mather Academy (later named Boylan-Haven-Mather Academy) in Camden, S.C., then attended South Carolina State College (now South Carolina State University), a historically black college in Orangeburg. He was initiated into the Omega Psi Phi fraternity and graduated with a bachelor's degree in history. For his first full-time position after college, Clyburn taught at C.A. Brown High School in Charleston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jim Clyburn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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