David Vaughan is an American businessman and politician who is serving as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from the 27th district. He is a Republican.

Early life and education

David Vaughan was born in

Greenville, South Carolina Greenville (; locally ) is a city in and the seat of Greenville County, South Carolina, United States. With a population of 70,720 at the 2020 census, it is the sixth-largest city in the state. Greenville is located approximately halfway be ...

. In 1987 he was graduated from the University of South Carolina with a

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degree.

Career

In 1996, Vaughan became a business owner by constructing self-storage units around the Greenville area. Vaughan won the June 2022 Republican primary with 52% of the vote, and won the general election unopposed. He succeeded

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, who had held the office since 2003 and did not seek reelection. Vaughan assumed office on December 6, 2022. Vaughn serves on the House Education and Public Works Committee. In 2023, Vaughan was briefly among the Republican co-sponsors of the South Carolina Prenatal Equal Protection Act of 2023, which would make women who had abortions eligible for the

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; he later withdrew his sponsorship, texting NBC News he had "signed on that bill in Error (''sic'')".

References

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