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Elizabeth Colbert Busch | |
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| Born | Elizabeth Colbert December 10, 1954 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Education | College of Charleston (BA) |
Political party | Democratic |
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| Children | 3 |
| Father | James William Colbert Jr. |
| Relatives | Stephen Colbert (brother) |
Elizabeth Colbert Busch (born December 10, 1954)[1][2] is an American economist and politician who is the Director of Business Development at Clemson University's Restoration Institute,[3] and was the Democratic Party nominee for the 2013 special election for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, losing to Mark Sanford.[4][5] She is the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert.[6]
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Colbert Busch is the eighth of the eleven children of James William Colbert Jr., who served as the first Vice President of Academic Affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina, and homemaker Lorna (née Tuck) Colbert.[7][8]
The Colbert family is 15/16ths Irish ancestry; one of her paternal great-great-grandmothers was of German and English descent.[9][10] Many of her ancestors emigrated from Ireland to North America in the 19th century before and during the Great Famine.[11][12][13][10]
Colbert Busch briefly attended the University of South Carolina, but returned to Charleston after her father and two brothers Peter and Paul were among the 71 passengers who died on Eastern Air Lines Flight 212, in 1974.[14] She then enrolled in the College of Charleston, receiving her B.A. in intermodal transportation and logistics management, and was named to the National Dean's List in 1988.[15]
After graduating, she completed a South Carolina State Ports Authority business development internship, and worked for Associated Maritime Industries Inc, as a liaison between the AMI and the U.S. Federal and State Governments.[16] She then worked as the Regional Director for Sales and Marketing and the Director of Business Development at Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), where she was responsible for international maritime relations and South Atlantic and North American sales.[17][18] She left OOCL in 2008, when she was hired as Director of Business Development at Clemson University's Restoration Institute, described by the Charleston Post and Courier as "the school's corporate matchmaker" for the university's development projects for wind turbine testing, water studies, and renewable energy.[16][19] Colbert Busch also works as the Director of Sales and Marketing for Clemson's Wind Turbine Drivetrain Testing Facility.[20]
Colbert Busch is a founder and former member of the Executive Board of Directors of Charleston Women in International Trade, and former member of the College of Charleston's Business College Alumni Advisory Board.[21] She has served as chairwoman of the 2006 S.C. International Trade Conference, the chairwoman of the Maritime Association Port of Charleston and is board member of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce.[22][23]
On January 18, 2013, Colbert Busch announced that she would run as a Democrat in the 2013 special election for South Carolina's 1st congressional district to fill the vacancy created when Tim Scott was appointed to the United States Senate after incumbent Senator Jim DeMint resigned to head conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation.[24] In the March 19 Democratic primary, she was to face Charleston businessman Martin Skelly, the founder of the Russian-based private equity firm UFG Asset Management.[25]
On February 11, 2013, Martin Skelly dropped out of the race, endorsing Colbert Busch.[26]
On March 19, 2013, Colbert Busch handily won the Democratic primary with over 95% of the vote compared to perennial candidate Ben Frasier's 4%. In the special election she was defeated by former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.[27][28] Colbert Busch garnered 45.3% of the vote compared to Sanford's 54.2%.[29]
Colbert Busch supported background checks as part of a gun control bill that was defeated by the U.S. Senate.[30]
Elizabeth Colbert Busch is married to Claus Wyman Busch III. She has three children with her ex-husband Robert Legare: Mary Legare Middleton (grandchildren Elizabeth Ann and Thomas Bradley Middleton Jr.); Robert Walker Legare Jr; and Catherine Ann Legare.[15]
She was arrested in 1988 for contempt of court during her divorce from her previous husband.[31]
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Colbert Busch describes her first marriage as an abusive relationship that she left for her three children's sake. She said her then-husband falsely claimed she was keeping the children from him, frustrating the judge. "The judge became frustrated with the situation and that's how I ended up where I was," she said in the interview. "As a mother would I do it again? You bet I would."
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Elizabeth Colbert Busch (born December 10, 1954) is an American economist and politician who is the Director of Business Development at Clemson University's Restoration Institute, and was the Democratic Party nominee for the 2013 special election for South Carolina's 1st congressional district, losing to Mark Sanford. She is the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert.
Elizabeth Colbert may refer to: Elizabeth V. Colbert (1865–1929), American politician from New York Elizabeth Colbert Busch (born 1954), American economist and politician from South Carolina
James William Colbert Jr. (December 15, 1920 – September 11, 1974) was an American physician-scientist and immunologist. He was a professor of medicine at Yale University from 1951 to 1953, the dean of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine from 1953 to 1961, then a director and academic at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Medical University of South Carolina. After graduating from the College of the Holy Cross, Colbert earned his medical degree from Columbia University with a research specialty in infectious diseases. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, he conducted research on viral hepatitis with the United States Army Medical Corps before becoming a professor at the Yale School of Medicine. In 1953, at age 32, he was named dean of the Saint Louis University School of Medicine, becoming the youngest dean of a medical school in the country. Colbert had eleven children, including comedian Stephen Colbert and politician Elizabeth Colbert Busch. He was killed, along with two of his sons, in the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 near Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1974. At the time of his death, he was the vice president of medical affairs at the Medical University of South Carolina.
A special election for South Carolina's 1st congressional district was held on May 7, 2013, to fill the seat following the resignation of U.S. Representative Tim Scott, who was appointed to the United States Senate by Governor Nikki Haley to fill the seat previously held by Jim DeMint. DeMint resigned from the Senate on January 2, 2013, to accept a position as president of The Heritage Foundation. The filing period for candidates lasted between January 18 and January 28, 2013. The special primary elections took place on March 19, 2013. Businesswoman Elizabeth Colbert Busch won the Democratic Party primary and Mark Sanford, the former governor of South Carolina who held the seat from 1995 to 2001, advanced to a runoff with former Charleston County Councilman Curtis Bostic for the Republican Party nomination. Prior to the runoff, 14 Republicans and one Democrat signed the "Reject the Debt" pledge put out by the nonpartisan Coalition to Reduce Spending. In the runoff election on April 2, Sanford defeated Bostic. Eugene Platt, a James Island Public Service Commissioner, was nominated by the South Carolina Green Party. In the general election on May 7, Sanford received 54% of the vote, beating Colbert Busch (45%) and Platt (1%).
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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