Frank Sharp Holleman, III is an attorney and politician from

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who was the

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's nominee for

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in 2010 and is a former

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. Holleman was born in

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and attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. He graduated from Harvard Law School and served as a law clerk for Judge

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of the

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and Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. He then worked as a partner at Wyche, Burgess, Freeman and Parham in Greenville, South Carolina. Holleman served as chairman of the South Carolina Democratic Party from 1988–90. In 1994, he was appointed by President

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to serve in the

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as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and later served as Chief of Staff for

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. In 1999, Clinton recess appointed Holleman to serve as Deputy Secretary of Education, a post which he held until the end of the Clinton presidency. Holleman served as campaign manager for

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's Senate campaign in 2004, and was rumored as a possible candidate for state Superintendent of Education in 2006. He did not run and

Jim Rex Jim Rex (born November 21, 1941 in Toledo, Ohio) was the 16th South Carolina Superintendent of Education. He ran for the position in 2006 as a Democrat, against Karen Floyd, a Republican. Rex defeated Floyd by only 455 votes, the closest marg ...

won the Democratic nomination and the general election. After Rex decided not to run for re-election and instead ran for governor, Holleman announced his candidacy for Superintendent in the 2010 election. Holleman opposed tax credits or publicly funded vouchers for private school tuition, and supported an expansion of early childhood education and adoption of the

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. He won the Democratic nomination against school administrator Tom Thompson. In the general election, Holleman raised a substantial amount of money, and the race was initially considered to be close, but he lost the general election to Republican nominee Mick Zais. Holleman is now a senior litigating attorney at the

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, where he has led the effort to litigate against power utilities over the disposal of

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, especially in the wake of the

2014 Dan River coal ash spill In February 2014, an Eden, North Carolina facility owned by Duke Energy spilled 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River. The company later pled guilty to criminal negligence in their handling of coal ash at Eden and elsewhere and paid extremel ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Holleman, Frank South Carolina Democrats South Carolina lawyers Living people Harvard Law School alumni Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States United States Deputy Secretaries of Education Furman University alumni Alumni of the London School of Economics Year of birth missing (living people) Clinton administration personnel People from Seneca, South Carolina

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