Kenneth Lamar Holland

Kenneth Lamar Holland (* November 24, 1934 in Hickory, Catawba County, North Carolina) is an American politician. Between 1975 and 1983 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Kenneth Holland attended the public schools in Gaffney, and then studied until 1960 at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. In the meantime, he was from 1952 to 1959 a member of the National Guard of South Carolina. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1963 admitted to the bar he began in Camden to work in his new profession.

Politically, Holland joined the Democratic Party. Between 1968 and 1972 he was a delegate to the regional Democratic Party days. In 1968 he took part in Chicago and at the Democratic National Convention. Between 1972 and 1975, Holland was a member of the Highway Committee of the State of South Carolina. In the congressional elections of 1974 he was in the fifth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas S. Gettys on January 3, 1975. After three elections Holland was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1983 four related legislative periods.

In 1982, he opted not to run again. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. In 2006, he was considering a run for the gubernatorial elections in South Carolina. After only one month, he moved his application for financial reasons back. Today, Kenneth Holland lives in Gaffney. He has three children and three grandchildren.